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David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Medieval Households by David Herlihy

lacked a concept of the coresidential, primary descent group, he used literary texts and census units. For the emergence of the c...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

David Ives' One Act Play Sure Thing

such as Don Quixote and his tilting of Windmills(Definitions). In this story, however, two people are simply having a drink of cof...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Communities of Violence by David Nirenberg

the Shepherds Crusade, as Nirenberg posits that this was, indeed, the case, that is, that the poor people who enacted the violence...

'What is Postmodern Illness?' by David Morris

time, cats were associated with Satanism. One medieval pope actually issued a decree that all the cats in Christendom should be ki...

Evaluating David Benetar's Article on Existence

In five pages an article in which Benetar claims it is better not to be born along with an offered opposing position is examined. ...

King of the World by David Remnick

knew who he was. He relied on the fact that people loved and adored him. For the most part we, as readers and people with knowledg...

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David Shipler

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

Religions of Mesoamerica by David Carrasco

sun traveled at night" (Carrasco 35). The game was viewed as a representation of a cosmic struggle in which the players competed t...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

Failure of the Israeli-Palestinian Summit, Camp David, 2000

in an article by Jeremy Pressman. He says that most people believe that "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak made a generous offer t...

Above All Earthly Pow'rs By David F. Wells

is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...

David Panton and Rex Nettleford's Jamaica's Michael Manley

their export, while "competing-without the benefit of protective tariffs-against other British colonies" (Panton; Nettleford, 1993...

David Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Symbolism

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

Reality Perspectives of George Berkeley and David Hume

made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

Westphalian Sovereignty by David Held

to do as they like without any interference from other nations. And it is precisely this thinking, Held argues, that has to stop b...

Education According to Newman

of itself, has remained a distant second to the pursuit of capitalism, one can readily argue that Newmans own pursuit of education...

British Politics and Constitution According to Hippolyte Taine

In 5 pages this paper examines how the French philosopher perceived the politics and Constitution of Great Britain. There are 7 s...

Politics According to Plato and Aristotle

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

Love According to E. Annie Proulx, Sigmund Freud, and William Shakespeare

marriage. So Freud had roughly 1,460 sexually-oppressed days to contemplate the meaning of life and why we humans operate the way...

The Birth Of Jesus According To Matthew And Luke

great humility and eagerness to do as God wishes (Luke 1:39). She then travels to visit Elizabeth where she stays for three months...

Human Behavior According to Freud and Nietzsche

is something that is not synonymous with love. At the same time, the sexual system is more than just something that involves a man...