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Essays 241 - 270
of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...
in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...
when an examination is undertaken of the way in which human rights are protected, the value of independent organisations such as A...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
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...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...
values that were presented to us in the middle of the 20th century. And, according to many, family values "is a code name devised ...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...