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beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

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

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

In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

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

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

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

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

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...

The Holy Trinity is one of Christianity’s most esoteric mysteries. It is confounding, at best. There is one God but three distinct...

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...