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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...
& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...
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...
drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
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...
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...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...
acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
leads to the meditative absorptions states known as jhana (Novak, 1989). The second, insight meditation, contemplates the "true n...
which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...
parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...
basis, he reports that it enabled him to achieve a state that can only be described as transcendence, as TM, at this point in his ...
This paper provides the student with an example essay that describes the writer's personal experience in regards to dreaming, dayd...