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Essays 61 - 90
In eight pages this report contrasts and compares these various types of Buddhist meditation practices. Seven sources are cited i...
In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...
In three pages this research paper examines creative visualization, channeling, Shamanic Journeying, and T'ai Chi practices of med...
In forty five pages this paper presents a literature review in which the incorporation of eastern medical practices including t'ai...
In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...
In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...
significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...
In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...
In one page this paper examines how daily life can be transcended through meditation with the Buddhist example of Prince Siddharth...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
at the moment to meet our destiny will be available to us. It is at this point that we alter our relationship with the future. W...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
at stress and productivity specifically will draw on the other relayed information. II. What is Stress? According to the Tex...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
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...
while remaining completely conscious" (Religion, 2001). When the meditator reaches the fourth stage, he has abandoned "any sense o...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...