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This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

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

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

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

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...

In eight pages this paper discusses social reformation in a contrast and comparison of the philosophies of Plato and Confucius....

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...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

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

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

as a teacher, is to free his students from the cave and metaphorically drag them into the sunlight. The selection from Phaedo reco...

In five pages the differing political views between Plato and his one time philosophy student Aristotle are discussed with Plato's...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...

In five pages this research paper examines how Parmenides' Eleatic philosophy was used by Aristotle and Plato as a way for reality...

In six pages this research paper considers how the death concept was applied to the scheme of life through the classical Greek phi...

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). ...

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

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...