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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...

Diet and Clothing in Europe and Spain of the Eleventh Century

inherent to the dominating castle. The pyramidal hierarchy that was inevitably created as a result of such exclusion was meant to...

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...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

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...

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...

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...

Existence of God Proven by the Argument from Design

the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

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)....

God's Existence Belief

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

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...

Philosophical Concepts

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

God's Existence and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Existence of God Arguments

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

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...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

Distinction Between the Mind and Body and Sixth Meditation of Rene Descartes

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Karl Marx and Economic Determinism

angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

A Dialogue on Believing in God's Existence

argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...

Existence According to George Berkeley

in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...

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...

Developmental Disabilities

In five pages the existence of developmental disabilities in contemporary society is examined with examples of the positive impact...

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...