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a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
ever voted, by a tenth part of those who were bound to pay obedience to it " (Hume PG). One can take this notion a step further an...
of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...
In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...
nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...
In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...
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 evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
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...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
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 ...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...