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In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...
In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...
This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...
In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...
This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...
nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...
In five pages material substance concepts are considered in this contrasting and comparison of three philosophical perspectives wi...
In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...
the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...
to change moral systems developed before him with complicity in an illegitimate process of reasoning" (p.6). Essentially, he is as...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...
some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
neighbors. Such things do happen. When life happens, it is often unique and has little reference to the past. Yet, in examining t...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...
day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...