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Essays 391 - 420
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...
and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
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 ...
This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...
This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...
This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...
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 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 human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
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...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
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...
In short, Massachusetts failed to honor its own state constitution whereby the Encouragement of Literature clause pointedly held t...
This, notes Brantlinger (2003), is precisely the situation that has manifested where academic injustice is concerned, inasmuch as ...
some school systems are at a greater disadvantage due to cultural insulation while others struggle with integration due to social ...
Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...
are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...