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In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
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...
explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...
expected to do this much work every day(Taylor, 1998). Secondly, he passionate pushed for qualified workers. In other words, put ...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
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...
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...