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In two pages this paper considers what impact history and culture had on the philosophies of William James and Rene Descartes. Tw...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...
and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...
This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...
In a paper consisting of five pages Rene Descartes' life, philosophy particularly Cartesian Dualism, and whether or not it is curr...
In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
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...
unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...
is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...
we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
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...