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In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...
In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...
yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...
God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...
In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...
This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...
In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...
In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...
In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...
This essay addresses Descartes and the error known a the somatic market hypothesis. In this discussion, the writer differentiates ...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
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...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...