An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

appearances, everyone really does agree about the problem of liberty and necessity. In this essay I shall discuss the basis of Hume's argument, which I posit rests upon his views on necessary connection. That is, our notion of necessary connection comes about through the observation of constant conjunction of objects and events, from which we infer causal relationships. Furthermore, Hume applies his view of necessity to human nature and behaviour, and asserts that, despite what they may say, all…

Anarchy is a political system rooted in strong idealism and deep seated beliefs. Despite this however it has a bad reputation, Anarchy is something that is usually considered to be for ‘edgy’ teenagers and naïve radicles. When people hear the word anarchy most people immediately start imaging a chaotic world in flames, where people do whatever there evil heart’s desire. This is partially due to the way it portrayed in the media and popular history as well as in society. However the reality is…

Whether we acknowledge it or not, most of us fear death. Death remains a great mystery, one of the central issues with which religion and philosophy and science have wrestled since the beginning of human history. Even though dying is a natural part of existence, American culture is unique in the extent to which death is viewed as a taboo topic. Jessica Mitford’s Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ On the Fear of Death are two readings that have two different point-of-views…

patterns of thinking while behavioural theories of depression aim to explain the aetiology of the disorder while stressing the role maladaptive actions play in the onset and maintenance (Otto et al. 2007). This essay aims to use cognitive and behavioural models to assist in understanding the aetiology of depression. This…

The medical field is constantly growing and growing, discovering new diseases and cures that bring us one step further to understanding the world around us. However, one medical discovery has been hailed as “miraculous” and “a long needed breakthrough.” This medical discovery is better known as stem cell research, more specifically, the study of stem cells for medical applications. Stem cells are a special category of cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types, but also…

putting in. So every so often just go and experience new places and activities, it will help you shape your perception of the world and life. John Locke’s theory on perception backs up what is stated because in chapter nine book 2 of an essay concerning human understanding he says that “Reflection (experience) alone gives us the idea of what perception is”. This is saying that to perceive we must first reflect on what we experience, because you cannot perceive something that you have not saw,…

There are a handful of psychoanalytic essays that could possibly explain the views of how this could possibly relate. Instead I choose to view the theories in which the criticism itself began and how these “founders” made it relate. In order for this to be seen I researched deeply into the theories of Freud and Lacan. In term this allowed me to get an inside look and better understanding of the topic. Freuds look into Frankenstein or really his ideas allow the reader to really get a better idea…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian born in Lucerne to a well-established family. Von Balthasar joined the Society of Jesus in 1929 upon the completion of his dissertation. At the leading of Henri de Lubac, von Balthasar studied Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor where he discovered a hope for the salvation of the world. During his time as a chaplain in Basle, von Balthasar met the protestant theologian Karl Barth, who would go on to become close friend and major…

philosopher. Locke begins his essay in Book 1 by arguing against the concept of innate ideas. Empiricists such as Locke claim that nothing can come a priori or prior to experience. Locke believed the mind at birth was a blank slate (tabula rasa), which experience can then make its mark. In chapter one, of Book one, Locke tackles the most favorable argument for innate ideas, the evidence of “universal consent”. This argument states that all cultures have common ideas concerning such things as…