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Human Resources Management and Boeing

knowledge assets and, as a result, ended up creating a competitive advantage across many Boeing departments and divisions (Anonymo...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Rene Descartes' 'Dreaming Argument' in Meditations

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

Evaluating the Dualism of Rene Descartes

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

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

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

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

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...

Rene Descartes and Dualism

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

Justice Theory of Plato

a humans body. It sought to find pleasure and to find sustenance. "These appetites should not be allowed, to enslave the other ele...

Dreaming Argument of Rene Descartes Analyzed by Norman Malcolm

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

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

Allegory of Social Dissolution Lord of the Flies by William Golding

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

Analysis of Rene Descartes' Two Meditations

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

How Culture and History Influenced the Philosophical Perspectives of William James and Rene Descartes

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

'Beowulf' and the Grendel Character

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Grendel as featured in the epic 'Beowulf' and how he is intended to be repr...

Tripitaka in Wu Cheng'en's 'Monkey'

In an analytic essay consisting of five pages the Tripitaka character in Monkey is examined in terms of his representation of man ...

Goodman Brown 'Dark Side'

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

Skeptical Challenge and 'Meditation' Argument of Rene Descartes

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

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

Human Resources and their Function in Mordern Organizations

This research paper addresses the ways in which the functions of the human resources (HR) departments has changed in recent decade...

On the Commonwealth by Cicero

master and ruler of men, namely God, who is the author of this law, its interpreter, and its sponsor. The man who will not obey it...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

Improving Rene Descartes' Psychology Limitations with the 'Conscious Mental State' of William James

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

Meditations of Rene Descartes

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

Mind and Body in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

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

Sensory Perceptions and Meditations of Rene Descartes

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

Views of St. Augustine and Jean Jacques Rousseau on Nature and Human Nature Compared

Human nature and nature are contrasted and compared in the Confessions of St. Augustine and the Second Discourse of Rousseau in a ...

Message of Billy Budd by Herman Melville

composition. Among her miscellaneous multitude, the Indomitable mustered several individuals who, however inferior in grade, were...