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In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

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

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....

In six pages this paper presents a fictional dialogue on philosophy between two people with one arguing in favor of sensual proof ...

In nine pages this paper discusses the philosophical and theological 5 proofs of God's existence but the lack of understanding tha...

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

patients who were able to learn the art of "conscious relaxation" not only were able to quit smoking and eat better, but showed im...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

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

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 the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...

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

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...