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Sensual Inquiry of Philosopher Rene Descartes

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...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

A Look at The Meditations by Descartes

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

Theories on Stress and How It May Be Treated

the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...

Dreaming and Descartes' First Meditation

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

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Daily Living Through Zen Buddhism

karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...

Meditation on Dying by Robert Nozick

to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...

Rene Descartes' 'Dreaming Argument' in Meditations

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

Analyzing Universal Doubt

known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...

States of Consciousness

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...

Modalities of Self Care and Holistic Nursing

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

The Sixth Meditation by Descartes

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

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...

Meditations by Rene Descartes and its Meaning

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

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...

Meditation Types

while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

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...

PSYCHOLOGY AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...

Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Goal of Meditation in the Buddhist Tradition

leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...

The Theory and Difficulties of Cartesian Dualism

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...

Aurelius and Augustine

parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...

Reaction Paper to Rosenthal's Transcendence and Healing

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 ...

Altered States of Consciousness, A Personal Account

This paper provides the student with an example essay that describes the writer's personal experience in regards to dreaming, dayd...