Essays 31 - 60
his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...
A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...
did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...
explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...
Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...
In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...
In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...
God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...
In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...
sword (Amos 7:11). Amos explained who he was: "I was neither a prophet nor a prophets son, but I was a shepherd . . . But the Lor...
well as atrocities instigated by one group of human beings against another or by individuals, one can often hear the comment that ...
Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...
called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...