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In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

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...

In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...

In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

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

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

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

in Greece since 4 BCE, those who dared to doubt or who said it was okay to express doubts and questions werent held in high regard...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...