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acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
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...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
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....
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
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...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...
In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...
In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...
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...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
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...
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 six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...
In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...
This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...
In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...