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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...

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

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

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

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

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 five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

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

by a spokesman for the fetish priests, Togbe Atsu Eklo of the Adzimashi shrine, which appealed to the gods and their ancestors to ...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

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

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

each of the six areas of life: family and home; spiritual and ethical; social and cultural; financial and career; physical and hea...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...