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He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

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

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 ...

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

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

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

earlier generations focus on film or television. Koulikov (2005) in his study of hyperreality and simulation in anime, makes...

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

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

the Tahitian people. Noa Noa is the private journal and daily sketch book of Gauguin during his time there, though it is highly f...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

Thales (c. 600 BCE) Pythagoras (c. 550 BCE) Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) George Berkeley (1685-1753) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) were ...