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Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...
In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...
In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...
In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...
In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...
In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...
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...
significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...
off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...
In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...
This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...
This essay addresses Descartes and the error known a the somatic market hypothesis. In this discussion, the writer differentiates ...
In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...
In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...
In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...
yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...
He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...