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discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

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,...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...

was to start writing down all the things he could remember that Socrates had said, writing down conversations he had hear and also...

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

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

can be found in many church doctrines today (Fisher, 2006). Augustine was a seeker of truth throughout his life (Smitha, 1998). H...

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

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

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...

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...

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

the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...