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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...

Ethical Relativism in a Critical Eye

are what make us the morally minded creatures we strive to be, although their principles are often overlooked or misconstrued. To...

Absentee Parents in Kaplan and Irving

The phenomenon of absentee parents has increased in relevance in the 21st century. This analysis is a comparison and contrast of L...

Analysis of the Second Chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

Testimonial Knowledge and Robert Audi

some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...

Different 'David' Sculptures

that of David. This was his first real sculpture and perhaps, like David, he was taking on a powerful challenge that would determi...

Thematic Analysis of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

silence and contemplation and it was just this sort of thing that Thoreau was seeking and thus details are an intricate part of hi...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon

to Spain, stayed on in England in the vain hope of recovering her dowry from the skinflint Henry VII. She eventually married Arthu...

Article Review on Reasons Why the US is Not Liked by Many Parts of the World

the 1890s, but both accomplishments represented the results of a century of growing economic might" (Development of the United Sta...

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...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Progress and Technology

would soon desire to take the car everywhere instead of walking, maintaining his own bodys requirements. Mans pursuit of the dolla...

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...

Born Unwanted Examined Critically

boys would prove to have greater difficulties than the girls in the study. Another hypothesis was that "the effect of unwan...

Hermeneutics, Theology, and David Tracy

to the studies of the French Revolution but finds that "the events, texts, symbols, movements, individuals, rituals multiply. And ...

Walden and Civil Disobedience Examined Critically

of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...

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...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Skeptical Human Understanding of David Hume

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens

a very good life with his mother but then his mother marries and he is sent away to a place called Salem House. It is London board...

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...

Church Unity and the Significance of the David and Goliath Story

to the concept of monotheism and from that point on, every Jew born is considered to be "a son of Abraham" (Nyrop). Abraham and h...

Race Concept and its History

that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...

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...