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which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

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

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

due to lack of support from the homeland and the natives, whom the Vikings did battle with. Centuries later the English decided to...

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

a starting point. This was then built on by philosophers such as Kat, and the culture has changed so that these are perceived as a...

being things such as substances that are found in the material world (Honderich, 1995). Modes and relations are two other complex ...

that people do have a duty to God, which is coupled with a duty to obey their ruler (Honderich, 1995). At the same time, Locke say...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

basis of this essay (1995). He maintains the blank state hypothesis, believing that people are born with minds akin to a blank, wh...

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

Within a short time however, Locke was relieved of his public duties, and left England due to the ill effects of the climate on hi...

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

paper is to explore that complex relationship as it falls under the liberal philosophy, that great tradition epitomized by such ph...

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...

because although God has given man great riches, he has limited it: "The same law of nature, that does by this means give us prop...

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

or easily assessed manner. As an example, in the first paragraph being examined Locke states, "Clear and distinct ideas are term...