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In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...
and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...
In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...
Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...
work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...
In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...
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...
do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...
In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...
He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...
In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...
In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...
In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...
In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...
"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...
body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...
in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
"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...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...