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    David Hume's Dichotomy

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    David Hume gave a famous interpretation of the fact-value distinction in his Treatise: you can’t derive an “ought” from an “is”. No set of statements of facts by themselves entails any statement of value. In other words‚ no set of descriptive statements can entail an evaluative statement without the addition of at least one evaluative or normative premise.1 But the philosophical position that facts and values are two different things has been challenged by several critics that consider it deluded

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    of psychology. New York‚ NY: Anchor Books. Kreis‚ S.‚ (2004). Plato‚ The Allegory of the Cave. The History Guide. Retrieved 4/14/13 from http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html Rychlak‚ J. F. (1998). Is there an unrecognized teleology in Hume ’s analysis of causation?. Journal Of Theoretical And Philosophical Psychology‚ 18(1)‚ 52-60.

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    makes people more prone to accept it. There are also many criticisms of the cosmological argument. David Hume argues that any form of knowledge humans have should be based on something they have experienced or witnessed first-hand. Hume goes on to say that Aquinas just like any of the human hasn’t experienced the beginning of the universe or the supposed being that created the universe so Hume argues that Aquinas’ entire argument is based on assumption as opposed to experience and assumptions aren’t

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    The first standpoint is the evidential argument. Best introduced by Hume‚ it argues against the existence of God based on observations of the large amount of evil there is in the world relative to good. In Hume’s Argument from Evil‚ he writes‚ “all the goods in life united would not make a very happy man‚ but all the ills united would make a wretch indeed‚” (pg. 234). The observations Hume makes of all the underserved suffering that occurs throughout the world paints a picture

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    Strawson‚ Galen (1997). The Self. Journal of Consciousness Studies‚ 4‚ No. 5/6‚ 405-428. Retrieved May 6‚ 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.zynet.co.uk/i1mprint/strawson.htm Hume‚ David (1739). A Treatise of Human Nature Book 1. SECT IV. Retrieved May 6‚ 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.utm.edu/research/hume/wri/treatise/treatise.htm Gergen‚ Kenneth (1991). The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life. United States: HarperCollins. Gergen‚ Kenneth. The Decline and Fall

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    Free Will And determinism

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    Position Paper I am writing on Free will and determinism. I am supporting that free will exist and that we control and are responsible for what we do. I will argue that free will better fits our life‚ than determinism. Determinism is basically some other power controls everything in life‚ and what we do. Even though people will argue that God controls everything we do‚ which I agree with‚ but the fact that everything is already pre-determined in our life‚ I don’t support. I don’t support determinism

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    Utilitarianism: Bentham and Mill Utilitarianism begins with the work of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)‚ an English political and social reformer. Educated at Oxford‚ Bentham eventually headed up a small group of thinkers called the “Philosophical Radicals.” This group‚ which included James Mill (father of John Stuart Mill‚ more on him later)‚ was dedicated to social reform and the promulgation of Bentham’s ideas. Bentham based utilitarian ethics on the so-called “greatest happiness principle

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    Impact of the Welfare State The Welfare State was an idea that brought about changes throughout Northern Ireland‚ especially in the three areas of health‚ housing and education. It did this through funding from London‚ as Northern Ireland could not pay for these reforms out of its own income. After Northern Ireland helped the UK in WW2‚ they were looked upon in a better way. In return‚ most of the taxation control was given to the British government. They were also given aid from the Marshall plan

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    The Enlightenment was a crucial point in history that began in Europe during the late 17th century and continued to last a little over one hundred years when people like Francois-Marie Arouet‚ David Hume‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ and John Locke began to question and object to previous norms such as absolute faith in the church and rule of the king. They believed that power should not be held only by one person or entity and that reason rather than religion should become the basis for action. The expansion

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    When are people responsible for their actions? According to Simon Blackburn’s theory of "Soft Determinism" people are responsible for their actions as long as true and available information is possessed. Blackburn’s short story revises the compatibilist definition several times. The revised revised definition reads as follows: The subject acted freely if she could have done otherwise in the right sense. This means that she would have done otherwise if she had chosen differently and

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