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determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

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

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

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

with whatever is remote and extraordinary; and running without control into the most distant parts of space and time in order to a...

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

In five pages this essay discusses Hume's opposition to the a posteriori argument regarding the divine 'Designer' of the cosmos. ...

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares the covenants with God and the Old Testament stories of David, Moses, Adam and Ev...

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

In eight pages Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding serves as a springboard to a discussion regarding the Scottish philos...

In five pages Hume's views on morality are discussed in terms of their origins and arguments against limiting self serving actions...

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In nine pages this research paper examines Hume's philosophical conclusions regarding moral judgments and the roles sentiment and ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the views of these philosophers as they relate to the death penalty. Six sources are cited in ...

In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

In five pages material substance concepts are considered in this contrasting and comparison of three philosophical perspectives wi...

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

This essay is a book review that pertains to David McGrinn's God, Why Was I Born Gay? Biology, the Bible and the Homosexual Debate...

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

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

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

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

they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...