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    Hume’s appeals to human nature in order to explain knowledge‚ but his writings are more about discrediting the common beliefs and replacing them with skepticism. Hume accounts for human’s believing in cause and effect because of the habit that comes from common experiences‚ and not too dissimilar is his explanation for the existence of necessary connections‚ which he believes is due to our ability to examine enough similar instances to call something a connection. Hume does not provide anything that

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    Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using

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    academic feminists contend that prostitution should be legalized.” (John Macionis) Activists are strongly opposing these arguments and believe that legalizing prostitution would increase a women’s sexual exploitation

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    Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using

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    Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia)‚ which literally means "love of wisdom. Skepticism is a philosophical attitude that‚ in its most extreme form‚ questions the possibility of obtaining any sort of knowledge. It was first articulated by Pyrrho‚ who believed that everything could be doubted except appearances. Sextus Empiricus (2nd century AD)‚ skepticism’s most prominent advocate‚ describes it as an "ability to place

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    It can be argued that what John Stuart Mill argues is indeed correctly thought out and the best application to having the freedom of doing an action if it doesn’t cause any harm to anyone else. Therefore‚ there is no just reason to stop someone from doing an action if it doesn’t affect you in a negative manner. The counter-argument is that every action that has be done affects all individuals be it directly or indirectly. Mill (1859) states that whatever society that has been established and doesn’t

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    This paper will consist of a summary of John Hick’s presentation for the argument of religious experience as well as Michael Scriven’s objection through the argument of atheism. In particular‚ I will analyze Hick’s stance on the traditional theistic proofs and how he views religious experience to be a stronger example of evidence that supports the existence of God. Then‚ I will analyze how Scriven resists the argument of religious experiences as irrational and how atheism is used as a response‚ or

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    determine a code for what is right and what is wrong‚ John Stuart Mill argues for the “greatest happiness principle.” In his book Utilitarianism‚ he writes‚ “Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (7). In other words‚ the only metric of whether an action is good or bad is its promotion of happiness or lack thereof. As part of his proof of this principle‚ Mill poses an argument in support of hedonism‚ asserting that happiness

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    seriously ill or a threat to the society they shall be put to sleep without breaking the law. It is better to end one life then let it suffer. It is wrong for one to suffer without intentionally doing something wrong. These are some of the arguments that John Steinbeck is getting across in his

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    two types of skepticism: antecedent and consequent. Both of these come in a very moderate and extreme form. He explains antecedent skepticism by using the Descartes theory of universal doubt. He explains that there is no principle that is more self evident than doubt and even if there was we would not be able to advance ahead of it because we our still able to doubt and reason deductively. This would mean Antecedent skepticism is incurable. Though this extreme antecedent skepticism can not be

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