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is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
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...
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...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
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...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
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...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
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 ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...