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Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...
In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...
In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...
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 the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
In five pages the Third Meditation of Rene Descartes is analyzed in terms of the arguments presented. There are no other sources ...
Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...
image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...
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 the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...
being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...
In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...