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Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

Existence of Traditional Family Values

values that were presented to us in the middle of the 20th century. And, according to many, family values "is a code name devised ...

Chemical And Biological Weapons: Dangers Posed To Human Existence

in 1984 with the implementation of its first agent. "Irans motives for seeking nuclear weapons stem from its rivalry with Iraq, f...

The Mind/Body Problem

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

E-Commerce, Physical Presence vs. On-Line Existence

This paper provides a discussion of the July/August 1999 report featured in the Harvard Business Review addressing a retailer's ph...

Existence of a Lesbian and Gay Community Considered

In five pages the meaning of a community of gays and lesbians and whether or not such a community exists in the United States are ...

How to Achieve Peaceful Existence

peaceful place. This is perhaps the essential argument of all the others being mentioned as well. Martin Luther King Jr., when oth...

Marxist Views on Continued Existence of the Prison System

the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...

Evaluating David Benetar's Article on Existence

In five pages an article in which Benetar claims it is better not to be born along with an offered opposing position is examined. ...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

Existence of Natural Rights

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...

Essence is Preceded by Existence

is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...

Existence Issues Surrounding Frankenstein's Monster

the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shel...

Philosophical Problems of Cartesian Circle

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

Armstrong and Descartes on the Problem Between the Mind and Body

that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

Roy Lichtenstein and Rene Magritte's Art

he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...

Meditations by Descartes, Skepticism and Science

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

Armstrong and Descartes' Views Compared

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

Philosophy and On Independent Thought Q and A

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

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...

Contrasting and Comparing Descartes and Locke

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...

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...

Identity Issues

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

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...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes' Meditations

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

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 ...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...