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In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
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...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
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...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
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...
In six pages this paper considers historical materialism according to Engels and Marx in this philosophical overview. Eight sourc...
In nine pages this report examines the relationship between capitalism, feminism, and Marxism and how each is determined by forces...
In five pages this paper discusses being an American during this time period according to cultural and ethnic groups' definition o...
In five pages this text by Neustadt is discussed in terms of the power of the President that according to Dahl resides primarily u...
In five pages this paper examines sexuality and the repression that is caused by sexual obsession according to social theorist Mic...
from his immediate forebears....
A definition of health according to 2 theories of nursing is examined in a research paper consisting of five pages. Four sources ...
This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...
of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...
war between government and the people ends when freedoms are expanded. For example, in a communist government, individuals cannot ...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
reasons, among them the reaction of fear and disbelief. John Stuart Mill addressed the fatalism of his age by theorizing the prin...