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Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...
one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...
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...
any attempt to model understanding of God on the basis of a study of humanity is simply untenable. What is the soul of man? A mixt...
a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes O...
have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...
day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...
In six pages Scottish philosopher David Hume's skepticism concerning the existence of miracles is discussed which although interes...
thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...
In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...
In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...
In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...
In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...
In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...
In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...
In twelve pages this research paper examines the evolution of pluralism in a consideration of such philosophies as David Hume's em...
In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...
In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...
In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...
In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
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...
determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...