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Essays 241 - 270
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...
are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...
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 ...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
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...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
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...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
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...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
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...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
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 thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
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...