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true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
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...
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 business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
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...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
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...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
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...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...
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...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
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,...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...
than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...