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Continuing Problem of Shortages of Nurses

divert status at least three times a week for the last year, with the exception of the only level one trauma center in Nevada, whi...

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

What is Real, Nonfoundationalism, Dualism, and Materialism

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

Families, Handicapped Children, and the Findings of Turnbull and Turnbull

In this paper consisting of seven pages this paper examines family integration of children with disabilities according to the find...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Objectivism versus Spirituality in Works by Ayn Rand and Simone Weil

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...

Human Knowledge and Three Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

Do Matter, Time, and Space Coexist?

In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

Perspectives of Rene Descartes and Aristotle

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

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

No Contest by Alfie Kohn

In a paper consisting of five pages the advantages to personal and business relationships offered by eliminating competition accor...

Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Reality and Knowledge and Descartes and Berkeley

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

Knowledge of Humanity, Empiricism vs. Rationalism

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

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

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

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

Aristotle and Rene Descartes Define Philosophy

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

What Does Empiricism Teach About The Relationship Between Appearance And Reality?

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...