YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :On the Standard of Taste by David Hume
Essays 121 - 150
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
even know such a field as graphic art existed until he was 27 years of age and up until he became involved in art he was a profess...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...
of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...
It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...
determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...
rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...
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...
the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...
In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...
This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...
In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...
A 5 page review of the book by David Gergen. 1 source....
of participating in Forms consists (as he holds in the Phaedo) in taking the Forms apart, with the result that nothing remains: 1)...
In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....
In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...
with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...