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help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
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...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...
be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...
while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...
approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
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...
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...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
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 ...
the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...
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...
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...
parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...