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examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

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

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 paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...

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...

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

In five pages the world and religion as man relates to both are considered in the context of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and...