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Essays 91 - 120
those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
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...
This argumentative essay states a position against the restrictions imposed under the Patriot Act due to 9/11. At the end of the e...
This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
There are three issues discussed in this essay. The first explains a scenario of a fraud examiner interviewing a person and all th...
This essay takes a Rogerian approach to discussing Simon Collings' s "Do You Speak English?" This essay also includes an explanati...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
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...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...
insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
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...
off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
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...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...
In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...