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is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...
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...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...
God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...
In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...
are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...
In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...