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In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

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

the government have the right to act? By what measure can one say that an existing government is a rightful one? Hobbess...

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Immanuel Kant and John Locke on the concept of government as represen...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

in their business. On the other side are those who want totalitarian rule, where the people have little say in what goes on. Betwe...

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

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

In five pages material substance concepts are considered in this contrasting and comparison of three philosophical perspectives wi...

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

In five pages this paper discusses Saint Anselm's 2 proofs regarding the God concept and the noncontradiction laws along with thes...

obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...

or easily assessed manner. As an example, in the first paragraph being examined Locke states, "Clear and distinct ideas are term...

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

to the Declaration of Independence. That Locke influenced the ideas of the men who created the declaration is obvious. Lockes (16...

In six pages this paper discusses the state's role according to John Locke's philosophies and also considers the Asian economic cr...

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

because although God has given man great riches, he has limited it: "The same law of nature, that does by this means give us prop...

to take away the fundamental rights of freedom and liberty, that the government should be overthrown. When we look at the i...

In twenty pages this paper discusses John Locke's life and British political influence with such topics as the social contract and...

In five pages this paper discusses the primary and secondary qualities illustrated through John Locke's example of the almond in a...

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

a result, then, human action falls under the same "mechanized" process; specific desires occur in the human body and reveal themse...