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Essays 421 - 450
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...
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...
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 discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...
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 ...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
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...
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...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
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...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
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...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...
In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...
In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...
In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...
In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...