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Northrup on History

This 4 page paper discusses David Northrup’s idea that history should be considered as comprising two periods, before and after ...

Sure Thing, a Play by David Ives

rapport between two people (Gaines F4). However, within the course of the play, Ives also makes a scathing reference to the blaze,...

Noble's Opposition to Technology

as email. This all saves time. Long gone are the two necessary carbon copies that the typists painstakingly created and filed and ...

Transcendentalist Ideas of Henry David Thoreau

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

Death Penalty and the Views of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, and Plato

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

Free Will, Determinism, and David Hume

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

David Hume and His Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

Identity According to Risieri Frondizi and David Hume

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

David Hume, Atheism, and Immorality

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

Evil, God, and David Hume

of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...

Knowledge of the World as Perceived by David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

Thomas Nagel, Peter Unger, and David Hume on Skepticism

present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...

Past Basis for the Future According to David Hume

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

Comparative Analysis of David Hume and John Locke

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

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 ...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

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...

John Locke and David Hume on Knowledge

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

Life and Works of Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

Presidential Campaigning, the Toulmin Argument, Jeremy Bentham, and David Hume

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

Philosophical Look at David Hume and Plato

In six pages this paper denotes similarities and differences in the philosophies of Plato and Hume regarding God, morality, and hu...