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

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

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

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

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

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

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...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

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

In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

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

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

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

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

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

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...