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have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
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...
is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...
critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
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...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
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...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
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...
Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
In five pages this paper compares modern science's concept of reality with Plato's Theory of Forms and how they relate to understa...
In two pages this paper considers what impact history and culture had on the philosophies of William James and Rene Descartes. Tw...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
In five pages this paper examines political rule in a consideration of knowledge, wisdom, and morality in Plato's The Republic. T...
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, 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 ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...