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deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

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...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

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...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

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

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...

In five pages Hume, Kant, Cicero, and Plato are discussing how when responding to political oppression violence can be morally jus...

In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...