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Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

Comparative Analysis of Spinoza's Dual Monism and Rene Descartes Mind and Body Interactionism

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

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

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

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

The Mind/Body Problem

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Three Essays on Descartes

This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Analyzing Universal Doubt

known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...

Benefits of Meditation

In three pages this research paper examines creative visualization, channeling, Shamanic Journeying, and T'ai Chi practices of med...

Altered States of Consciousness, A Personal Account

This paper provides the student with an example essay that describes the writer's personal experience in regards to dreaming, dayd...

Reaction Paper to Rosenthal's Transcendence and Healing

basis, he reports that it enabled him to achieve a state that can only be described as transcendence, as TM, at this point in his ...

Meditation and Exercise

that there are some tips toward combating stress and its effect on the human body. Taking time out each day to perform stress-bust...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

Meditation Types

while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...

Savannah, Tybee Island and Meditation

demands of the world, which are often overwhelming, and get back in touch with their inner selves. This paper is not a "how to" es...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Children and Social Attachment Issues

as a baby," (Harmon, 7, 2001), which should serve to remind us that "infants and toddlers are part of relationships and that to un...

Steady State Economy According to Rene Girard and Beyond Growth by Herman Daly

Sustainable Development A. Chapter 4, "Operationalizing Sustainable Development by Investing in Natural Capital" - defines incom...

Mechanical Philosophy's Changes and Important Elements

dominated by Aristotelianism (McMullen, 2002). Due to the dominance of Aristotelianism, the idea of mechanical philosophy did not...

Herman Daly's Beyond Growth

economic theory; operational policy; national accounts; population; international trade; pioneers in the field; and ethics and rel...

Jonathan Ellis and Rene Tissen's The Seven Deadly Sins of Management

your colleagues (those enemies trying to beat you to your rightful place) are now replaced with a lust for gain" (Ellis; Tissen, 2...

Identity Issues

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

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...

Descartes on Dualism

are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

Proving God's Existence with the Philosophies of Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Plato

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

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

Philosophy of Doubt and Renee Descartes

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