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infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

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

dominated by Aristotelianism (McMullen, 2002). Due to the dominance of Aristotelianism, the idea of mechanical philosophy did not...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

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

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

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

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

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...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

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...

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

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

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

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

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

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

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...