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God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

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

God According to Jean Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

How Culture and History Influenced the Philosophical Perspectives of William James and Rene Descartes

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

Improving Rene Descartes' Psychology Limitations with the 'Conscious Mental State' of William James

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

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...

Ontological Argument on God's Existence by Rene Descartes

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

Doubt Philosophy of Rene Descartes

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

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

Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes on Truth

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

Evaluating the Dualism of Rene Descartes

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

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...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

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 ...

Dream Argument of Rene Descartes

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

Reason According to Descartes and Hume

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

Nature of the Mind According to David Armstrong

In three pages the mind's nature as perceived by philosopher and theorist David Armstrong is examined. One source is cited in the...

Robert D. Putnam and Mind Play

the result of our communal activity and community sharing has been shrinking over the past forty years and this shrinkage poses a ...

Cognitive Therapy With Iraq Veterans

therapy is a particularly useful approach in helping Iraqi war veterans deal with - and ultimately put aside - the intrusive prese...

Summary and Overview of Ridley Scott’s Film The Blade Runner

The Replicants in The Blade Runner were genetically engineered, and yet while their initial data was programmed and they had a lif...

Montessori - Three Essential Principals

come to take care of her needs. The same is true for the toddler. The toddler begins learning unconsciously that if he does someth...

Psychosynthesis

umbrella of gestalt therapy that reaches far into this vast cavity of the human beings visual imagery and draws out a response tha...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

MInd as a Construct in Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

in a small town such as Winesburg, Ohio allows for a single narrator to know many dark secrets from many individual minds. It offe...

Correlation Between Nutrition And Depression

related to depression is a mothers inability to provide enough nutritional sustenance to her infant; without the necessary caloric...