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Essays 91 - 120
In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
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 ...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...
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...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
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 ...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
(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...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
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...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
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...
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...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
We all make ethical decisions every day but there are there are times when we are challenged with an ethical dilemma. In business,...
one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...