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Essays 421 - 450
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...
experiential knowledge is correct? David Humes ideas about knowledge are very powerful. He held that people acquire beliefs about ...
one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...
do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...
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...
Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...