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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...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

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

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

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

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 ...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

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

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

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

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

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

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

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

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...

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

included many notables who would go on to be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science (Mendez, 2002). Harry S. Truma...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

In two pages this paper considers what impact history and culture had on the philosophies of William James and Rene Descartes. Tw...

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...