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Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

The Human Brain Descartes argued that the mind is an entirely separate substance from the body because he can "think" of...

In five pages this paper examines Hegel's philosophy within the context of the statement 'The sole thought which philosophy brings...

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...

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

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...

ecologically rational if it is adapted to the structure of the environment (Bounded Rationality, 2003). Bazerman (1998) describe...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

components of our existence. From a historical perspective meditation has played a tremendously important role even in the United...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

apply to all of them. First, in the Buddhist tradition, there is no charge for any part of the program. Hosts not only do not ch...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

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

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

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...

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

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

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...