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In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

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

In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. 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 five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

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

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

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

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

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...

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...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

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

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

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

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

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

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...

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

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

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

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

or observation. For example we can only argue that the mans eyes are blue by looking at his eyes. Here we have a statement that ne...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...