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Essays 241 - 270

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

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...

Descartes and Heidegger in Samuel Beckett's Rockaby

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Descartes on Dualism

are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

Knowledge and the Views of the Empiricists and the Rationalists

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

Existence, Delusion, Doubt, and Destiny

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Knowledge of Humanity, Empiricism vs. Rationalism

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

Does Believing in God's Existence Make Any Sense?

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov from the Perspective of Rene Girard

In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...

Contrasting and Comparing Descartes and Locke

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...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Armstrong and Descartes on the Problem Between the Mind and Body

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...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

Armstrong and Descartes' Views Compared

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

Roy Lichtenstein and Rene Magritte's Art

he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...

Philosophical Problems of Cartesian Circle

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

Education Politics, Modernism, and Postmodernism

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

Identity Issues

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

A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

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

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

Philosophical Concept Known as 'the Great Chain of Being'

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...