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Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Existence of God in Swinburne, Rowe, and Hume

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

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

David Hume on Reason

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...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

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

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

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

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

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

Christian Views on Evil

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 ...

God's Existence Arguments

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

Literature and Philosophical Themes

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

David Hume and John Locke on the Certainty Concept

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

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

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...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

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...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

God's Existence and the Design Argument

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

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

Lincoln MKS (Ad Analysis)

speaks volumes. At the very bottom of the ad the words read: "Introducing the all new 2009 Lincoln MKS." Then, right underneath is...

Karl Marx and the Enlightenment & Kant’s Hope for the Future

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...

John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Jim the Botanist by Bernard Williams

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant on Killing and Morals

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...

Value Theory of Immanuel Kant

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

Richard Rorty and Immanuel Kant on Truth

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

Comparisons Between the Concepts of Immanuel Kant and Jean Paul Sartre

other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...

Categorical Ethical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and its Restructuring by Hans Jonas

"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and the Ford Motor Company's Pinto

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...