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

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

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

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

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...

In one page this paper explains Russell's The Problems of Philosophy in which he discusses how a priori knowledge exists and emplo...

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

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

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

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

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

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...

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

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

In one page this essay considers how Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy on consequences transforms it into the utilitarianism princ...

In five pages a nursing perspective is presented in this ethical consideration of euthanasia and its related issues with reference...

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

In a report consisting of eight pages abortion is examined within the context of David Hume's utilitarian philosophy and Aristotle...

In twelve pages this research paper examines the evolution of pluralism in a consideration of such philosophies as David Hume's em...

comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...

In eight pages this paper discusses the concept of autonomy within the context of Immanuel Kant's philosophy and in the text Angel...