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the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

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...

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...

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

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...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

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

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

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

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...