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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

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

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...

In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

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

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...

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...

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

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

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

"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...

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...

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

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...