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Essays 391 - 420
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...
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...
at stress and productivity specifically will draw on the other relayed information. II. What is Stress? According to the Tex...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
that there are some tips toward combating stress and its effect on the human body. Taking time out each day to perform stress-bust...
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...
clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...
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 ...
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...
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...
"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 dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...
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...
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...
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...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
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...
might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...