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Adams's Essay 'Should God Create Good?'

In five pages the arguments presented in this essay in terms of God's and man's obligations to potential life are compared to soci...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

Beliefs, Obligations and Construction of a Personal Ethical Code

to construct an ethical code to live by. Someone once said ethics is difficult because its not a simple choice between right and w...

Lincoln MKS (Ad Analysis)

speaks volumes. At the very bottom of the ad the words read: "Introducing the all new 2009 Lincoln MKS." Then, right underneath is...

Max De Pree's Leadership Jazz

pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...

Continuing Problem of Shortages of Nurses

divert status at least three times a week for the last year, with the exception of the only level one trauma center in Nevada, whi...

Families, Handicapped Children, and the Findings of Turnbull and Turnbull

In this paper consisting of seven pages this paper examines family integration of children with disabilities according to the find...

Modernity and What it Means

In five pages this paper attempts to derive modernity's meaning in an examination of All That is Solid Gold Melts into the Air by ...

Absentee Parents in Kaplan and Irving

The phenomenon of absentee parents has increased in relevance in the 21st century. This analysis is a comparison and contrast of L...

No Contest by Alfie Kohn

In a paper consisting of five pages the advantages to personal and business relationships offered by eliminating competition accor...

Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

Unjust Laws According to Henry David Thoreau

a serious subject for examination. Unjust Laws Exist Thoreau had chosen to life that was in some respects that of a recluse an...

Comparison of Scots Law with Sharia Law

Majestatem, which was heavily influenced by Glanvills English law treatise, but it demonstrates the many sources of Scottish law a...

The Greatest King of Israel

This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

'On the Standard of Taste' by David Hume

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

A Review of Gabriel's Story

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

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...

Comparative Analysis of David Hume and John Locke

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

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 ...

Skepticism of David Hume Answered by Immanuel Kant

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

'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,...

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 ...

John Locke and David Hume on Knowledge

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

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...