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In five pages this paper discusses how doubt and reality is understood by philosopher Rene Descartes with his argument flaws also ...

This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

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

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

In two pages this paper considers what impact history and culture had on the philosophies of William James and Rene Descartes. Tw...

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

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

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

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...

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...

According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

components of our existence. From a historical perspective meditation has played a tremendously important role even in the United...

apply to all of them. First, in the Buddhist tradition, there is no charge for any part of the program. Hosts not only do not ch...

beginning of all things--the Buddha. And for those in a hurry --there developed the satori-- or sudden enlightenment. It was often...

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...

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

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

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