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Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...
In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...
In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...
In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...
In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...
having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...
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...
Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...