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Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Galileo, Descartes, and St. Augustine on Science and Religion

In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...

Hume and Descartes Compared and Contrasted

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...

Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

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...

Hegel, Descartes, and Calvin on Free Will

In six pages the question 'Does it make any difference whether or not people have free will?' is responded to by this trio of phil...

Three Essays on Descartes

This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...

International Finance Questions

The paper is based on a case study provided by the student, where a fictitious South American country which previously pegged its’...

Will Terrorism Become The Preeminent International Security Issue And Create Crises Of Authority For Governments?

forces. President Bushs actions after 9/11 reflect the limitations of his power. His White House was unable to impose significan...

Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies

he perceives to be worthwhile causes. He is currently a sophomore at a large university, with majors in philosophy and literature....

NO Government Bailouts!

This is the boom-and-bust cycle that economists occasionally try to pronounce dead, only for it to rise up again to prove those ec...

Huck Finn is Not a Racist Book

and wrong the past was, as he also introduces what were still subversive ideas concerning race. For example, take the way that Chr...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Hume and Descartes

human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

God According to Jean Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

Discussing the First Meditation of Descartes

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

Piano and Orchestra

(or) get together" (Raykoff). These seemingly disparate definitions in actuality "point to the heterogeneous nature commonly attri...

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

Reparations for Slavery

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Substance Dualism: Descartes, Spinoza and Berkeley

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...

Legal Analysis of a Slip-and-fall Case

complaint and denied the plaintiffs cross-motion for leave to reargue. In this case, there were multiple defendants, one of which ...