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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...

In four pages this paper discusses how Russell reacted to the 'dream demon' notion of Descartes, contrasting his perspective that ...

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

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, ...

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

This essay discusses the role of doubt in religion as well as how different world views develop within the same religion. Three p...

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

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

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

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

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...

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

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...