Plato vs. ... Although I do not agree with Plato and his notions about the nature of our humanity, I think it is still important to examine his philosophy since it has had a great impact on the western world. ... This is where Plato's theory of the Soul is established. ... Plato's view of humanity was that the soul is immortal and the body is not. ... Plato views our humanity as a sort of disease and as a defect. ...

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Locke is considered to be the founder of British empiricism, while Descartes is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. ... Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a "science of abstractions." ...

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Hume "I was from the beginning scandalised, I must own, with this resemblance between the Deity and human creatures." --Philo David Hume wrote much about the subject of religion, much of it negative. In this paper we shall attempt to follow Hume's arguments against Deism as Someone knowable from the...

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