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Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

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...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

David Hume's Philosophical Arguments on the Global Presence of Evil

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

Smoking and Loss of Hearing Correlation

All of the study subjects were men who had been in the military for an average of 20 years. Half of the men had noise-induced hea...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Intellectual Life and Material Conditions According to Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx

they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Philosophical Comparison of Hempel v. Pierce and Blatchford v. Stace

In four pages theories of Hempel and Pierce are compared and contrasted as are those between Blatchford and Stace on such philosop...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

Paley's 'Watchmaker' Argument

In a paper consisting of three pages the existence of God as it is presented in the 'Watchmaker' argument is critiqued with extens...

Review on Karl Rahner's 'Demythologization in the Theology' Article

In three pages this paper considers Rahner's view of God and His existence by 'demythologizing' Him in order to incorporate His pr...

Fictional Philosophical Conversation Between Two People

In six pages this paper presents a fictional dialogue on philosophy between two people with one arguing in favor of sensual proof ...

Analysis of The Native by Thomas Hardy

This 2 page paper discusses Thomas Hardy's novel The Native. The writer argues that Hardy sees man as living in a universe that is...

Context of 'Bel Ami' by Guy de Maupassant

In seven pages this paper examines the naturalist context of de Maupassant's text and whether or not Duroy had freedom of choice o...

Dostoevsky's 'Notes From The Underground' And Kirkegaard's 'Fear And Trembling'

This is a 2 part report that consists of 5 pages and first considers the freedoms depicted in Dostoevsky's text and then discusses...

Florida and the Issue of Alligator Control

In a report containing five pages the dangers alligators pose to humans as well as themselves are explored along with a discussion...

Another Examination of Animal Rights 3

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the ways in which animals are exploited and forced to surrender their rights to which their ...

An Overview of the Classic Work on Chinese Warfare and Political Strategy, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

In this sisteen page paper the author reviews one of the most important documents in existence that shed light on Chinese ideology...

ESP Does Not Exist

In four pages this paper argues against ESP's so called existence by providing opposing evidence to claims made by researchers in ...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

Aristotle's Contemporary Philosophical Dialogue

Some of Aristotle's most famous conclusions are disputed in the dialogue contained within this six page research paper and such to...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

'Dream Demon' of Descartes, and Russell's Reaction

In four pages this paper discusses how Russell reacted to the 'dream demon' notion of Descartes, contrasting his perspective that ...

Analysis of Identity of Meaning Theory

In two pages U.T. Place is one of the theorists considered in a discussion of the Identity of Meaning Theory with a contrast of th...

Life and Man Viewed Across the Cultural Divide

Aristotle, Native Indian and Hindu philosophers had varying philosophies of life and the nature of man. This essay compares Aristo...

Howl by Allen Ginsberg and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

to punctuation for Ginsberg is to describe his howling. He writes that he has witnessed: "Ten years animal screams and suicides!...