YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Miracles According to David Hume
Essays 91 - 120
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
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 six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
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...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
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...
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...
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...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
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...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...
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...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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....
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 ...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...