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Essays 391 - 420
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...
are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...
In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...
In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...
yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...
God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...
This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...