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

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

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 nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...

In two pages the Four Noble Truths and how meditation fits into these beliefs are discussed in an examination of Buddhism, with th...

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

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

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

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

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

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

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

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

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

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...

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...

This paper provides the student with an example essay that describes the writer's personal experience in regards to dreaming, dayd...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

basis, he reports that it enabled him to achieve a state that can only be described as transcendence, as TM, at this point in his ...

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

In fourteen pages this report considers meditation practices in an assessment of its spiritual impact, benefits, and effectiveness...