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

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

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

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

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...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

Using the concepts of Thomas Aquinas this essay consisting of three pages discusses why dream symbolism is meaningful in terms of ...

wrote, "The very fact that the human being is rational necessitates its being characterized by free decision [liberum arbitrium]" ...

In ten pages this paper discusses the IRA in a consideration of oppression, the movement of the Seventies and Eighties and the the...

In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....

In eight pages this paper discusses how Aristotelian philosophy is refuted by St. Thomas Aquinas and also discusses the Summa Theo...

Hylemorphism's preference over materialism in philosophy is examined from the metaphysical perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and Aris...