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Education and John Locke

independence of judgment marked him throughout his life (1998). While Lockes contribution to the ideas of education is quite sign...

Thomas Nagel, Peter Unger, and David Hume on Skepticism

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

Necessity of Government

country in terms of routine items such as traffic and violent crime and international relations. It would create a strong national...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...

John Locke, Sex Offenders, and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

You will then be able to extract supporting information as done here, and this example paper will indicate how to cite such source...

History of Humanism

many years, but started to become less open during the dark ages. It was at this time that the Christian church took control. The ...

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

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,...

The Radical Nature of the American Revolution

This researech paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ideas that preceded the American Revolution, such as the concepts p...

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

McWorld Concept Compared with Classical Liberalism

a world that demands integration and uniformity with fast music, fast computers, and fast food (Barber). Of course, while one wo...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

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

Liberalism Compared with the Theories of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on America's Problems

fix the problems of the world unless they have no problems of their own. One problem that is quite prevalent in the...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

Second Treatise of John Locke

judge himself harshly. However, from this premise, he points out that "absolute monarchs are but men" (Sect. 13, chapter 2) (Locke...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Individual Rights

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

Life and Works of Scottish Philosopher David Hume

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

Presidential Campaigning, the Toulmin Argument, Jeremy Bentham, and David Hume

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Inspiring Governments: John Locke

states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...

The Ideas of John Locke

chapter Locke focuses on property, but the entire Treatise is not exactly like that. The Treatise on the other hand, suggests that...

Comparison o f William James' Verification and John Dewey's Experience and Inquiry

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

John's Gospel

therefore, offers interpretation of them through various reflections, narratives, and discourses (John, 2003). The first sign is t...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Last Supper Accounts

Jesus was both human and Divine as is reflected in many parts of the New Testament. This paper discusses the account of the Last S...