YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :On the Standard of Taste by David Hume
Essays 91 - 120
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...
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
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...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...
than just reasoning and experience anyway. Deductive and causal reasoning are two types but it is still not construed as adequate ...
present impression, the sight of a flame, for instance, results in a causal relationship in the mind of the observer between flame...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
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,...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...