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Sensory Perceptions and Meditations of Rene Descartes

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

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

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

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

Dualism Philosophy of Rene Descartes

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

Transcending Daily Life Through Meditation

In one page this paper examines how daily life can be transcended through meditation with the Buddhist example of Prince Siddharth...

David Hume's Critique of Rene Descartes' Existence of God 'Proof'

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

Meditation Benefits

at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future. W...

'Descartes' Evil Genius' by O.K. Bouwsma

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

Second Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

Skeptical Challenge and 'Meditation' Argument of Rene Descartes

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

The Sixth Meditation by Descartes

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

Modalities of Self Care and Holistic Nursing

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

Meditation on Dying by Robert Nozick

to be" (Nozick 22). After first acknowledging that connections with others are crucial throughout life and comforting at its end...

Rene Descartes' 'Dreaming Argument' in Meditations

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

Analyzing Universal Doubt

known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

Evaluating Childbirth Pain Management Alternative Proposal

drugs. In reality, pain management in labor delivery can include not only pharmacological approaches but also behavioral approach...

Dreaming Argument of Rene Descartes Analyzed by Norman Malcolm

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

Theories on Stress and How It May Be Treated

the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...

Dreaming and Descartes' First Meditation

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Daily Living Through Zen Buddhism

karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...

A Look at The Meditations by Descartes

According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Sensual Inquiry of Philosopher Rene Descartes

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

Hypothetical Case Study on the Soul's Existences

what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...