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Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

David Hume and John Locke on the Certainty Concept

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

Christian Views on Evil

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 ...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

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...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

Unstoppable Knowledge Pursuit

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

Philosophy and Doubt of Rene Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...

Concepts of Empiricism and Common Sense

This paper examines the concepts of empiricism and common sense from the perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume in five pa...

Why Utility Pleases by David Hume and Sympathy's Role

In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...

Human Soul, Event Causes, and the Philosophies of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

Hypothetical Conversation Between Rene Descartes and David Hume

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

Hume, Kant, and Aristotle

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

Influence of David Hume on Immanuel Kant

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

Philosophical 'Argument from Design' Argument

In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...

Subjective and Objective Morality and Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

Subjectivist vs. Rationalist Philosophical Theories

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...

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

David Hume on Reason

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...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Causation and the Philosophical Differences Between David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

Racism and David Hume

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

Components of the Philosophy of David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Philosophy and Ten Questions

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...