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Axiological, Ontological, and Epistemological Arguments Featured in The Republic by Plato

In ten pages this paper discusses how knowledge is considered via three types of philosophical arguments in The Republic by Plato....

The Ontological Argument of St. Anselm of Canterbury

In five pages the life and theological hypothesis that reflects the views and the work of Canterbury's St. Anselm are reviewed. F...

Do Matter, Time, and Space Coexist?

In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...

First 2 Meditations of Rene Descartes

In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

Contemporary World and Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes

In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...

Historical Context Regarding Philosophy's Intent

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

Historical and Cultural Perspectives on William James' and Rene Descartes' Philosophies

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

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Scientific Psychology and Negative Consequences of the Dualism Between Mind and Body as Theorized by René Descartes

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

Cogito and Rene Descartes

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

Rene Descartes' Contributions

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Rene Descartes' Works

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Reality Concept and Rene Descartes' Philosophy

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

Scientific Philosophies, Realism, and Antirealism

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Philosophical Empiricism and Rationalism

In two pages this report examines the Empiricism characterized by the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the rationa...

Marxist Class Concept and Overdetermination

In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...

Reality, Dreams, and Rene Descartes

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

What is Real, Nonfoundationalism, Dualism, and Materialism

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

X Files, Personhood and a Disembodied Mind

In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...