Experience & TikTok Number each prompt response and embed the TikTok rather than posting a link. Find or create a TikTok that represents the Hume’s basic empiricist idea that we gain knowledge through experience. Do not choose a TikTok that simply explains Hume’s ideas. Share and explain one quote from the “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” […]
Explain what Malebranche means by this claim, and critically discuss why he maintains that a ‘union’ is impossible. Does he offer a viable solution to the problem of mind-body interaction?
Malebranche Malebranche claims: “I tell you that so far from being more closely joined to the body than to anything else, we are in no way united to it.” Explain what Malebranche means by this claim, and critically discuss why he maintains that a ‘union’ is impossible. Does he offer a viable solution to the […]
What would make a moral system unreasonable in its requirements? Does Utilitarianism adequately address challenges against it such as those made by Hume?
Write a paper on criticisms of utilitarianism. Your paper will include sub-discussions on the following: Is Utilitarianism reasonable in its requirements? What would make a moral system unreasonable in its requirements? Does Utilitarianism adequately address challenges against it such as those made by Hume? Or by Williams? If so, how do these challenges relate to […]
Hume claims that what he calls freedom and necessity are compatible. In this discussion, you are to examine his arguments for this claim, and either defend or criticize his theory.
Hume and Free Will Hume claims that what he calls freedom and necessity are compatible. In this discussion, you are to examine his arguments for this claim, and either defend or criticize his theory. One important consideration is Hume’s claim that his view matches our general intuitions about free will.
write a 3-5 page essay either supporting or rejecting the following statement:
Using at least four of the philosophers studied in this course (Plato, Hesiod, Homer, The Sophists, Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) write a 3-5 page essay either supporting or rejecting the following statement: Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their […]