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Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...
In six pages the question 'Does it make any difference whether or not people have free will?' is responded to by this trio of phil...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...
This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
This paper discusses how Christian morality was influenced by Aristotle and Stoic philosophy in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in...
This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
In five pages this essay compares and contrasts Immanuel Kant's 18th century moral philosophy with that of John Stuart Mill's 19th...
This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...
Merce Cunningham's life and dance philosophy that radically innovated dance to an evocative postmodernist expression are discussed...
This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...
In 5 pages this paper examines the universal morality philosophy of Immanuel Kant and how it can be applied to daily life. One sou...
family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...
Thales (c. 600 BCE) Pythagoras (c. 550 BCE) Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) George Berkeley (1685-1753) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) were ...
BNF study was published; it found that "organically grown tomatoes are higher in levels of flavonoids" than those grown non-organi...
as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...
book may be considered very light reading and perhaps this was the authors intent. After all, he has made a career of trying to re...
In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...
been considered a disciple of Walter Gropius, due to his reliance on abstract form and materials, such as stone, concrete, glass a...