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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"David Hume"”.
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Fundamentos antropológicos de la convivencia en la filosofía de David Hume
… en la filosofía del hombre desarrollada por Hume. Dentro de ella se estudiarán ideas relacionadas con el origen de las sociedades, el poder, la religión, el derecho como herramienta de organización colectiva y la esencia del ser humano. Se tratarán la mayoría de los temas que tengan por …
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The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… have been two major themes in recent studies of Hume’s political philosophy: on the one hand, the implications, the nature, and the extent of Hume’s anti-rationalistic scepticism; and on the other hand, his continuation of and contribution to the natural law tradition, as it had been generally …
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Le réductionnisme dans le Traité de la nature humaine de David Hume
… Norman Kemp Smith appelait à représenter Hume « suivant toutes ses nombreuses activités », comme s’il pressentait que l’étude de la pensée humienne pouvait s’avérer un labyrinthe dans lesquels les commentaires pouvaient s’égarer et se perdre de vue. Ce pressentiment, on peut le dire …
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The space and time of human relationships in the philosophies of David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
… as they are conceived in the thought of Hume and Rousseau. By implication, therefore, the notion of the grounds and nature of human relationships varies from person to person. We can hardly think otherwise than that our notions of these relationships are determined by our views on human …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… Only with the much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… Only with the much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. …
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The Grammar of Obligation: An Investigation of the Views of Four British Moralists
… four British moral philosophers: Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Richard Price, and Henry Sidgwick. Although two of these philosophers give naturalistic accounts of obligation and two give intuitionistic accounts; I argue that in all four cases the view in question is marred by confusion over the …
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Existence of God: An Examination of the Cosmological Arguments as Proof of the Existence of God
… and scientific reasoning. Bertrand Russell and David Hume are critical of the cosmological arguments, however, the cosmological arguments of Thomas Aquinas and Bruce Reichenbach are able to overcome the objections presented by Russell and Hume.
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Futurity
… exists in the mind which contemplates them” —David Hume My art series, "Futurity" celebrates the richness of color, translucency, reflectivity, curvilinear geometry, and high craftsmanship. Within these low-relief works, dimension, depth, and mirrored luminosity arise from an ongoing dialogue …
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Atheism and Analogy: Aquinas Against the Atheists
… George Berkeley (chapter IV of Alciphron), and David Hume (chapter XII of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion) can be restructured into an argument for the position that the analogy of proportionality makes the distinction between atheism and theism merely verbal. Since both of these are …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… the Scottish Enlightenment--Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Millar--confronted this problem. First, they questioned whether some aspects of individualism constitute genuine problems at all. For instance, their analysis of conspicuous consumption or luxury …
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Heimspekingurinn Guðmundur Finnbogason: Heimspekilegir undirtónar Lýðmenntunar
… vestrænna heimspekinga; þeirra Aristótelesar og David Hume. En líkindi þessa höfunda verða greind með bakgrunn Guðmundar til hliðsjónar svo og ríkjandi strauma innan fræðanna og þjóðfélagsins.
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Musica come Scienza dell'uomo. I caratteri del sapere musicale nel Settecento britannico
… human mind, such as the ones of John Locke and David Hume, did influence the way in which music was thought. Particularly we will point out the case of Adam Smith’s interpretation of instrumental music, which is heavily indebted to the humeian model of the human mind.
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Rethinking Uncertainty: Spinoza and Hume on Shaping Uncertain Secular Futures
… of two modern philosophers, Baruch Spinoza and David Hume. Despite uncertainty's notable and multi-disciplinary appeal in the academic literature, the frame in which most scholars think about social and political uncertainty is one-sided. On the whole, contemporary scholars consider uncertainty …
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The Apologetics of Thomas Chalmers: The influences, methods, and effects of chalmers’ rebuttals to objections to christianity
… of refuting the theistic objections offered by David Hume (1711-1776), and within that goal, he modifies the then existing natural theological arguments to conform to his philosophical views. This research reveals that Chalmers’ apologetic arguments, which reflect the prevailing approach of …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Edward Gibbon, and David Hume, alongside clergymen such as Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester, and Conyers Middleton. It considers such Dissenters as Joseph Priestley and Richard Price, who refashioned civil religion variously …
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… as René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and philosophical hermeneutics theorists; (b) to deepen the theory of argumentative nature that allows the search for truth in moral issues through coherent argumentation amalgamated into the notion of integrity; (c) to build a …
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Theories of Fate among Present-day Astrologers
… arguments of Rene Descartes, Baruch de Spinoza, David Hume and Arthur Schopenhauer in their views on determinism, and then uses these views combined with the classical concepts of fate to investigate the nature of the 'determinism' adopted by astrologers. The field work reveals that, almost …
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