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off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...

In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

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...

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...

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...