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Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

In two pages this paper considers what impact history and culture had on the philosophies of William James and Rene Descartes. Tw...

In a paper consisting of five pages Rene Descartes' life, philosophy particularly Cartesian Dualism, and whether or not it is curr...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

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

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

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

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

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

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

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

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

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

In five pages the eleventh century argument of Anselm regarding God's existence is examined as presented in Monologium. One sourc...

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...

In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...