Descartes and Hume are two very famous philosophers who had very distinct and competing beliefs about God. Descartes was a rationalist and Hume was an empiricist‚ therefore both had different restrictions on our ability to have knowledge on God. Rationalist claim that our knowledge is gained independently of sense experience. Empiricists claim that sense experience is the source of all our concepts and knowledge. In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy‚ Descartes attempts to prove that there
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In his work‚ An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding‚ Hume presents a skeptical solution to the problem of induction and how we draw casual inferences. He conveys that we form inferences‚ not from reason‚ but from our experiences of cause and effect derived from the principle of custom or habit. Induction occurs when we make an inference and a conclusion from our past observations. Hume states that we can go beyond our memory and senses to conclude matters of fact. By experience‚ rather than
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Explain and illustrate Hume’s Fork Hume‚ 1711‚ was a classic empiricist. In this essay I will explain and illustrate Hume’s fork. But to begin with‚ I shall define empiricism. It is the belief that all ideas come from experience. Hume goes further and says that empiricism is indeed experience and they all come from what he calls ‘impressions’. Hume’s such ‘impressions’ are experiences‚ granted; but some of these impressions come from within ourselves as opposed to the five exterior senses. Second
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primitive. Regardless of personal perspective on any indefinite theory‚ it is undeniable that the controversy between good and evil will inevitably exist. Two dominant philosophers discussed in “The Problem of Evil” are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and David Hume. Both of these authors discuss interesting motives from both sides of the issue: why and why not God should allow evil. What makes Leibniz’ perspective credible is his prestigious accomplishments. Leibniz is the son of a professor of law‚ and
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Paley clearly explains to his reader that humans are so complicated that we must have been made by a designer. Hume argues that since the universe is not a human art‚ and is more like an animal‚ it does not need a designer. Paley argues that the complexity and functionality of a watch clearly shows that it was made by a designer. Animals are also complex and functional‚ therefore‚ Hume does not change the argument adequately enough to effectively counter it. Paley lays his argument as such:
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views of great philosophers such as George Berkeley and David Hume. Empiricists believe that all knowledge comes from the senses. Rationalists‚ on the other hand‚ believe that we can gain knowledge through the inspection of innate ideas. Although Berkeley and Hume are both empiricists‚ they still have different opinions about the existence of God. Berkeley’s philosophy uses God as the central figure in his metaphysical system. However‚ Hume uses scientific observation to postulate his theories and he
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have a basic understanding of Epistemology which is the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of knowledge and belief. There are two schools of thought in epistemology‚ rationalism and empiricism. Empiricists like Bertrand Russell and David Hume believe that sense experience is the ultimate starting point for all knowledge and that knowledge is obtained from experience only. But yet rationalist like René Descartes claimed that the ultimate starting point for all knowledge is not the senses
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explore the different interpretations of what miracles are and are not‚ and then reach a conclusion about whether miracles can exist in our world. There is no standard definition about what defines a miracle and different philosophers such as David Hume and Saint Augustine have different definitions on the subject. For somewhere to start‚ however‚ we might observe that the term originates from the Latin word miraculum‚ which
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agreeing with him. David Hume divides the perceptions of the mind into ideas on one side and impressions on the other. Hume believes that impressions are livelier than ideas. A great example he gives is the idea of love. Isn’t feeling love more lively than watching a movie about two people being in love? I would agree so. Often times Ideas can be made up or nonexistent. A unicorn or monster is something that would support this
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