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for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
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...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
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...
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...
the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future. W...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...
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...
acknowledges that this is somewhat of a surprise, given that, since the 17th century, mysticism, science and healing have gone in ...
parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to ma...
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...
demands of the world, which are often overwhelming, and get back in touch with their inner selves. This paper is not a "how to" es...