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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...
unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
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...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...
entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...
"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...
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 ...
it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...
"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...
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...
stresses the importance of early relationships, as she perceived personality development as integral to the parent/child relations...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
idea creates a "binary logic," in which evil is conceptualized as an "entity, a quality that is inherent in some people and not in...
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simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
How evil evolved in Christian beliefs is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages and how evil has changed in terms of soci...