Essays Tagged: "Hume"
Hume
HumeIn explaining Hume's critique of the belief in miracles, we must first understand the definition ... ch as what we are taught, and exterior events, such as what we hear or see first hand.When studying Hume's view of a miracle, he interprets or defines a miracle as such; a miracle is a violation of th ... h; a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, an event which is not normal to most of mankind. Hume explains this point brilliantly when he states, "Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it has ever ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
David Hume's critique of the belief in Miracles
In explaining Hume's critique of the belief in miracles,we must first understand the definition of a miracle. TheW ... uch as what we are taught, and exteriorevents, such as what we hear or see first hand.When studying Hume's view of a miracle, he interprets ordefines a miracle as such; a miracle is a violation of the ... uch; a miracle is a violation of thelaws of nature, an event which is not normal to most ofmankind. Hume explains this point brilliantly when he states,"Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it has ever h ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Discussion of the Feasibility of Miracles and the Grounds for Christianity existing without miracles. The fact and the ideas disagreeing with Hume's ideas
In the following Discussion, I will point out the facts and ideas that disagree with Hume's ideas. The ideas are the ones on miracles in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding involv ... agrees that Christians believe in the Bible, and that miracles have people understand the Bible as Hume points out, then Christians must believe in miracles. If one takes away any of these things, th ... ay any of these things, the statement does not hold. In this case, the removal of the Bible is used.Hume confronts the ideas of religion directly by stating that without the splendor of miracles, Chri ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
How is something true and real?
lness" of something. In that case, you will fall in the empiricist category of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, of which they were a part. Or you might like to depend on reason more than perception to verif ... him, an object does not exist independent of consciousness. (Pg 371, 7th edition).If you were David Hume, you would seriously doubt anything outside of your consciousness. He carried the empiricism vi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Miracles happening in today's world? It is all a matter of faith.
of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (Hume, 123n). Theologians of the Old & New Testament religions consider only God-willed contraven ... transmitted them with that inviolable sanction and authority which always attend received opinions (Hume, 126).Hume was a historian, as well as a philosopher, and it did not go unnoticed by him that t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The Benefits of Science and Technology
unthinkable. It leads them to accusations such as Science tries to play God. However, according to Hume, God is part of the order that exists in the universe. If so, then Science is just helping us d ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
Discuss: Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, BK III, Part 1, section 1.
feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it,"The purpose of this essay is to examine Hume's statement contained within the title and explore the possible interpretations and arguments o ... l subjectivism, before observing other possible interpretations as well as any counter-arguments of Hume's proposition that come to mind.Of course, it has now become all too apparent that classifying ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Pressing A Finger To The Eye: An Essay on David Hume's Epistemology
Hume's argument, which suggests that we have reason to doubt the knowledge received from the senses, ... t since objects possess a continued existence, reality is not correctly perceived by the senses. As Hume says of the senses, "'tis evident these faculties are incapable of giving rise to the notion of ... opinion of a distinct, not of a continu'd existence"(32). These contentions form the foundation of Hume's argument for doubting the knowledge received from the senses.Hume describes how, since the wo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Does falsification provide an answer to the problems of induction?
ents and theories of the alternating scientific procedures expressed by the empiricist philosophers Hume and Popper.Additionally, I have added the thoughts of Kuhn, a historian of science and of Feyer ... .To illuminate the essay question:Does falsification provide an answer to the problems of induction?Hume was the main philosopher to start a controversy regarding the validity of the origination of al ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Notes on Hume & Poppers different philosophies.
HUME NOTESThe Argument From Miracles-?There must always be a presumption against the occurrence of a ... ion has lied and/or made a mistake than the person overturned the laws of nature.?Arguments against Hume?s ?miracle thesis?s?:-Do unexplainable, extraordinary events happen in real life? This must be ... e thesis?s?:-Do unexplainable, extraordinary events happen in real life? This must be true, despite Hume?s above arguments-Can we be certain that science will explain all such ?miracles? (extraordinar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
American Education and Canadian Education
use it has separate curriculum and guidelines designed for each state. According to Author Susan B. Hume, Ph.D., the federal government does not operate the school system and each of the 50 states has ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Notion of Freedom
first-person metaphysical model of the Hindus resembles the third-person model of Kant. Similarly, Hume's model, and his argument, closely resembles Buddhism. This dichotomy is interesting, as Buddha ... interesting, as Buddha's model was a response to Hinduism, and, conversely, Kant was responding to Hume. This essay is an examination of the similarities and differences between Hinduism and Kant, an ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
My study notes for final. Brief overview of Hume, Kant, and Mill.
6. Hume: all that we know come from our senses. If there is no experience of God, it does not exist. Al ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Kant and the Categorical Imperative.
philosophy and especially in regards to his thought on the subject of morality. Kant disagreed with Hume that morality is objective and not subjective. Kant wanted to propose a pure moral philosophy, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Theories of resurrection of the body are logically incoherent.
refore not proved beyond doubt, and that these theories don't make sense. Hard materialists such as Hume will support this view, saying that death is the end and the decomposing body is evidence of th ... iritual resurrection occur are illogical as resurrection cannot happen, nothing happens after death.Hume and Bultmann followed Ryle in suggesting that death is the end. Their approach to miracles unde ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Ethics and Emotions
a morally bad act. Which ones are basis for ethics? Feelings or reason? This is the question where Hume and Kant opposed each other in their writings. Kant believed ethics come from reasoning versus ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Psychology and Religion
early twentieth century and, before them, to a tradition of reflection extending from Feuerbach and Hume, in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, back to the early Greek rationalists. Whereas the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The Ontological Argument
gument doesn't start from a fact. It is a UNIQUE argument because it is the only A PRIORI argument. Hume dismisses the Ontological Argument from the beginning. He says no a priori argument for God can ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Hume
Are Factual Beliefs About the Future Justifiable? Hume asserts that all reasoning concerning matters of fact seems to be founded on the relation of ca ... ication for one's belief in causal laws, then factual beliefs about the future would be justifiable.Hume believes that every idea is copied from some preceding impression or sentiment (521). He also a ... that, "where we cannot find any impression, we may be certain that there is no idea"� (521). Hume therefore believes that it is impossible for us to think of anything which we have not antecede ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Can the Human Model of Personal Identity as the Bundle Theory be Examined in the Context of Spider Man II?
losophical basis to attribute the term personal identity. It is in the mist of such scepticism that Hume provides a solution to the problem with the bundle theory of the self as its base. My intention ... tion of self and action propounded in the Karma Yoga comes into picture. I will proceed to simplify Hume?s bundle self into the no self doctrine of Early Buddhism where too Humean conception of relati ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy