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First 2 Meditations of Rene Descartes

In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

Contemporary World and Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes

In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...

Dream Demon of Rene Descartes and the Response by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Scientific Psychology and Negative Consequences of the Dualism Between Mind and Body as Theorized by René Descartes

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

'Self' and Existence

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Philosophical and Scientific Role of Rene Descartes

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

Human and What Humanness Means

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

Concept of God

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

The Sixth Meditation by Descartes

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

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

Hypothetical Case Study on the Soul's Existences

what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Rene Descartes' Works

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Material Substance and G.W. Leibniz

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

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

Methodic Doubt of Rene Descartes

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

'Of Identity And Diversity' According to John Locke

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

Sensual Inquiry of Philosopher Rene Descartes

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

Objects, Knowledge, Perception, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...