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This 5 page paper is in Q & A format. Hume's ideas about self and perception are discussed as are Aquinas's five proofs of God's existence. Theory is provided and some insights are included as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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I am." A student writing on this subject will want to look at Humes denial of the identity of self as strictly being a thinking being, something that Descartes himself
did embrace. David Humes ideas about knowledge are also powerful, but differ from the notion that thinking, or consciousness is very important. He held that people acquire beliefs about
things they are not experienced in a certain manner. Using the example of a flame, he would contend that people conclude it is a flame not because one starts from
a present impression or the sight of the flame (Honderich 378). One has an impression from the sight, and suppose that there is a causal relationship between the flames and
the heat and suppose that it is hot (378). Here, one sees that the human does make a cause and effect assumption, but this should not be confused with thinking
alone. Rather, much comes from experience. Toddlers learn that fire is hot by burning themselves. They do not understand this cerebrally. Rather, they experience something. Similarly, it seems that Hume
saw human beings as being able to experience things and so did not necessarily believe that they would also have to understand. While Hume appears down to Earth and logical,
he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between reason and human nature or what sometimes passes for reason, but turns out
to be imagination (Honderich 379). Many can sympathize with that point of view. Many people are not reasonable but make seemingly plausible statements. Yet, these are not backed by logic.
Thus, a student writing on this subject can make a second argument in that Hume held that even when people did think, thinking itself is suspect.
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