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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,...

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

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...

a philosopher, Philo a skeptic and Demea a theologian. Well see if this is correct and analyze one of the arguments. Cleanthes 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...

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

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

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

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

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

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...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

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...

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

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...

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

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

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

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

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

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...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...