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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...

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...

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

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

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

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...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

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

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

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

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...

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 ...

or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

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

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...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...

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

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

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

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 ...

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....