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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...
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...
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...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
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...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...
unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...
we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
This research report looks at this ultimate skeptic and explores doubt and truth in terms of all intellectual propositions. Is Des...
This research report examines rationalizations used by Descartes and his own belief system. Various issues are explored and scient...
In a paper consisting of five pages Rene Descartes' life, philosophy particularly Cartesian Dualism, and whether or not it is curr...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...
In four pages this paper discusses how Russell reacted to the 'dream demon' notion of Descartes, contrasting his perspective that ...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...