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considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...