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Essays 361 - 386
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...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
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 ...
This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...
This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...
approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...
This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
In six pages the question 'Does it make any difference whether or not people have free will?' is responded to by this trio of phil...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
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...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
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...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...