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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...

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

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

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

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

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...

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

able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...

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

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

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

In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...

In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...

one philosopher might say that it is always wrong to kill other people, or one might may qualify that idea by saying that it is al...

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...

from the known. Unless God is already known, logic is of no use. Having discredited all rational arguments for and against the ex...

In eight pages this paper examines God's existence in a consideration of philosophy's rational arguments. Four sources are cited ...

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

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