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a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
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 ...
in Greece since 4 BCE, those who dared to doubt or who said it was okay to express doubts and questions werent held in high regard...
way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...
Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...
which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
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...
the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...
awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...
for the boat the bishop was coming on" (Marquez 1). This story essentially seeks to uncover the ultimate death of Santiago who is ...
the worlds super powers. One of the most visible changes that has occurred since the onset and final outcome of Clintons im...
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley offer a study in Neoclassicism and Romanticism, respectively. This pap...