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Essays 301 - 330
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...
God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...
In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...
and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...