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

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...

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

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

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

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

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

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

pivoting around issues concerning one Petersons key areas, that is, the politics of development. A principal point of DeLeons anal...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

perceive it or try to measure it. Zebrowski (1994) remarks that Kant "denied the reality of passing time" (p.80). For Kant, both ...

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

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

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

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

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

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

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

lot about he character of this man who was a dominating force in the American Revolution. The French Revolution was bloodier, an...

are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

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

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

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

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

theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...