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

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

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...

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

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

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...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

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

apply to all of them. First, in the Buddhist tradition, there is no charge for any part of the program. Hosts not only do not ch...

components of our existence. From a historical perspective meditation has played a tremendously important role even in the United...

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

In one page this paper examines how daily life can be transcended through meditation with the Buddhist example of Prince Siddharth...

In two pages the Four Noble Truths and how meditation fits into these beliefs are discussed in an examination of Buddhism, with th...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

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

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

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

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

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

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

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...

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

In forty five pages this paper presents a literature review in which the incorporation of eastern medical practices including t'ai...

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...