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greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...

In seven pages this paper examines political and economic freedom in a consideration of the perspectives of Benjamin Franklin, Ale...

In eleven pages this paper considers Benjamin Franklin's perspectives on society and self in comparison with the views of Thomas H...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...

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

In six pages this research paper examines the religious and scientific perspectives offered by John Milton's Paradise Lost and Tho...

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

after it was moved to the Piazza della Signoria. The reason this particular point is so greatly argued is because of the glaring ...

This research paper discusses the positions espoused by classical economists Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo pertaini...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

will be examined and compared and contrasted. Paine insisted, in his "Common Sense" that "Securing freedom and property to all men...

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

supported this argument in support of Gods existence, contending that the external world is the ruling force behind the presence o...

needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...