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Essays 301 - 330
In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...
In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...
In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...
In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...
In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...
In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...
8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...
logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...
critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...