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Essays 91 - 120
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
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...
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...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
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...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
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 ...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
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...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
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...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
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contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...
In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...