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Essays 271 - 300
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
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 ...
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...
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...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
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...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...
rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...
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 five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
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 ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
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...
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 ...
the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...
or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...
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 ...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...