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with the fall of man and the origin of sin was metaphorical rather than literal. Not surprisingly, such thinking was considered b...

Piaget did not start out to be a developmental psychologist. He was very interested in natural sciences and did not turn to psycho...

care their loved one would want at this point inasmuch as she has no directives. The most significant of potential problems in ha...

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

The ideas of three theorists are explored in this 3 part paper. The first part of the paper explores the rise of capitalism, and ...

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was held at Nicea (also referred to as Nicaea) in 325 in order to address the topi...

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...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

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

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

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...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

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...

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

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...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

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

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

This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...