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In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

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

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

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

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

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

In fact, Florida officials reported that the primary reason parents gave for wanting to school their child at home was safety.v ...

approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

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

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