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Essays 271 - 300
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
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...
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 this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
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...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...
theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...
if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...
perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...