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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...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

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

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

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

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

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

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

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

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

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

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

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

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

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...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...

In six pages Scottish philosopher David Hume's skepticism concerning the existence of miracles is discussed which although interes...