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Rene Descartes' Works

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

Rene Descartes/Proving God Exists

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

An Analysis of the Ideas of Hume and Ayer

classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

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

Material Substance and G.W. Leibniz

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

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

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

Educational Philosophies of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

Philosophy and Business Ethics

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

2nd Meditation of Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Images, Ideas, and Belief According to Rene Descartes

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes' Meditations

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

Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Rene Descartes' First and Second Meditations

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...

Philosophical 'Argument from Design' Argument

In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...

Other Mind Concept and Problems Associated with It

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...

Descartes on Dualism

are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...

Existence and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

Hume, Kant, and Aristotle

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

Subjective and Objective Morality and Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

Influence of David Hume on Immanuel Kant

contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...

Meditations on First Philosophy and the Logic of Rene Descartes

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

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...