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In five pages this paper examines David Hume's philosophy regarding knowledge and how it is based upon immediate perceptual experi...

In five pages this text is examined in terms of political party differences in sentiment and ideology. There is 1 source listed i...

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...

In twelve pages this research paper examines the evolution of pluralism in a consideration of such philosophies as David Hume's em...

In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...

In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...

In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...

In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

still the most important piece of history that the U.S. embraces. Jefferson married in 1772 and owned both land and slaves ("Jef...

an ideal opportunity for the young country slip away. Spain had ceded its land holding in the Mississippi River valley to France, ...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...

day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...

to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...

any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...

a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...