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Essays 271 - 282
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...
"own kind" in terms of the patients she serves, meaning donors who were raised, as she was, at Hailsham or one of the other estate...