David Hume's Attack On Principles Of Cause & Effect #2
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An 8 page paper that provides an overview of Hume's beliefs regarding cause and effect as presented in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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David Hume; Life and Works
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This 10 page paper looks at the life and works of the eighteenth century Scottish philosopher David Hume. Hume, better known in his own time as a historian rather than a philosopher is now seen as one of the most influential thinkers of the empiricist school. His works spanned many years, including the well known 'Treatise of Human Nature'. His philosophy and its presentation in his different works is considered, as is his influence on other writers and institutions of his time. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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Enlightenment, Romance And Reason
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William Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads approached reason from the perspective of both poetry and Romanticism. The philosopher Immanual Kant approached reason from the perspective of Enlightenment. This 7 page paper argues that the relationship between Enlightenment principles of reason and the romantic emphasis on emotion seems, on the surface, to be diametrically opposed. However, from the Kantian viewpoint it is merely a step in the process to maturity of humankind. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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The Philosophy Of John Dewey
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6 pages in length. Celebrated American philosopher, John Dewey, postulated that all life was interconnected amidst education, art and the environment. Through his teachings, Dewey passed along his philosophies to countless students in several colleges across the country. Education as we know it today has greatly benefited because of the insightful philosophies of one of America's foremost thinkers. The writer briefly encapsulates Dewey's philosophies as they developed throughout his career.
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The Philosophy Of John Dewey / Aesthetics & Experience
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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the basic elements of aesthetics as described in John Dewey's explanation of experience. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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A Philosophical Inquiry into Whether There is Life After Death, According to Scheler, Ducasse & Heidegger
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A 6 page paper which considers whether there is life after death, through the perspective of philosophers Max Scheler, and his definition of the human spirit; Professor C.J. Ducasse's arguments against the assumption that we do not survive death; and Martin Heidegger's belief in the chief characteristic of human beings which makes us distinctive in the cosmos to evaluate what can be determined from Heidegger's analysis regarding his attitudes toward life and death. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Heidegger & The 4th Chapter Of 'Time and Being'
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A 6 page paper that provides and overview of the fourth chapter of Heidegger's Time and Being. Heidegger's progression of his concept of Dasein culminates in a major realization central to chapter 4--the acceptance of the 'who' of Dasein as Das Man. No additional sources cited.
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Heidegger's Being and Time
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5 pages in length. Martin Heidegger brings up interesting philosophical arguments in his book Being and Time. We see therein the virtual destruction of tradition as we know it. Heidegger has a way of analyzing Dasein within Being and Time such that we see his way is not the traditional way of investigating human knowledge. But in order to understand this, we must first understand his methods, and the way of Dasein's absorption into the world. The reader must consider as well the character of innerworldly beings as well as the character of anxiety. Bibliography lists one source.
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Heidegger's Dasein
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A 6 page paper that explores the relationship of Heidegger's Dasein to the concept of 'they' within everdayness and the progression of his concepts in light of these relationships. The writer also provides details to clarify Heidegger's authentic and inauthentic self as they relate to the 'they', publicness, temporality and spatiality. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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