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In nine pages this essay discusses metaphysics, a priori and synthetic forms of knowledge, transcendental deduction, and metaphysi...

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

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

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

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

that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

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...

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

This paper examines how in Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection, Immanuel Kant refutes Locke and Leibniz's theories in 5 pages....

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

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

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In five pages this paper considers 3 formulations regarding a single categorical imperative as presented in this philosophical tre...

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

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

moral philosophy. It is important to understand that Kant makes a clear distinction between perceiving and thinking, which he cre...

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

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

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