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a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...
& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...
really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...
known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...
is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...
help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...
be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...
while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...
approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...
which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...
parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...
basis, he reports that it enabled him to achieve a state that can only be described as transcendence, as TM, at this point in his ...
This paper provides the student with an example essay that describes the writer's personal experience in regards to dreaming, dayd...