Metaphysics is the Philosophical study whose object is to determine the real nature of things – to determine the meaning, structure, and principles of whatever is insofar as it is. In Aristotle's Metaphysics, the key concepts are substance, form and matter, potentiality and actuality, an...

Metaphysics as Addressed by Kant and HumeIn the Prolegomena, Kant states that reading David Hume, "awakened him from his dogmatic slumber." It was Hume's An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding that made Kant aware of issues and prejudices in his life that he had previously been unaware of. This ...

Individuals who possess the ability to lead the thought patterns of the masses shape culture and society and are responsible for the way philosophy is viewed and lived presently. A figure in the history of classical Greek philosophy is Aristotle. Some of his major contributions to Western philosop...

One of our greatest western philosophers of all time was a man known as Aristotle. Excelling in many fields, Aristotle has philosophical views that have been followed for hundreds of years. For eighteen years Aristotle was a student in Plato\'s academy, where he learned but parted with Plato\'s view...

The Monadology attempts to define the ultimate substance of the world. The first part of The Monadology explains what a monad is, whereas, the second part of The Monadology concentrates on metaphysical principles. All that there is in the universe consists of monads, which there are an infinite numb...

The Meditations are one of Descartes most important works. They consist of his views on sensory perception, God and Nature. He considers the problems of the sources and nature of knowledge; the validity of truth; the nature and destiny of man; the existence of god, and the creation of the universe...

Aristotle was the greatest and most influential of all Greek philosophers; he was born in the town of Stageira in the year of 384 B.C. His farther, Nicomachus, was the friend and physician of Amynats II, king of Macedonia, father of Phillip and grandfather of Alexander the Great. Aristotle\'s educa...

David Hume was one of the greatest thinkers in Western History. He was an 18th century philosopher who looked at the world in logical terms. He was a realist who, through philosophy, sought to distinguish between the impression of human experience and the ideas, which are changing repre...

Bob: Today in class, someone mentioned that the concept of God is a false belief. I am not sure whether I believe this and therefore know such a statement. What do you think?Jane: Hmmm...what an interesting topic. I see that you partake in agnosticism because you do not have enough evidence to neith...

Nietzsche "God Is Dead" Out of all the things I could have chosen to write about, for some reason "Twilight of the Idol's' caught my eye It was kind of a catchy title, and it was the last thing that Nietzsche wrote that had any merit before he went ...

David Hume (1711-1776) was a famous British philosopher who extended the empiricism of formerly philosophers like John Locke and developed a radical skepticism .He argued that every prediction about the unobserved is uncertain. And rejected the possibility of certain knowledge. According to his view...

David Hume has had a massive influence on the free will debate. Much of this influence is attributed to the chapter 'Liberty and Necessity' in his book 'An Enquiry into Human Understanding' which is the focus of this essay. What we see overall is Hume forwarding a new theory called compatibalism, in...