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at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...