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is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...
that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
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...
(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...
of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...