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Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

Images, Ideas, and Belief According to Rene Descartes

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

Intrinsic Association Between the Healing of the Body and Mind

-- that is, our need to rise above ourselves in order to see and respond to others needs. Listening to the body helps us to know ...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes' Meditations

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Subconscious Mind and Hallucinogenic Drugs

drugs and that use which had been in play among groups such as the Native Americans for centuries? The answer to both of these qu...

Differential Association Theory and Serial Killer Ted Bundy

the student with a significantly better understanding of what fueled Bundys murderous desire, as well as the fundamental factors b...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Leadership Qualities of William Bratton

"one of the first" hed "seen with the new-style rotating gumball-machine light, so that fascinated me. Every morning, this red-fac...

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...

John Forbes Nash Jr.'s A Beautiful Mind

and beyond. Nash appears to be destined for fame on the order of perhaps Albert Einstein. He already had gathered international ...

A Summary of Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind

think that schizophrenics are actually people who have split personalities, but this is not a correct description of the disease a...

Social Forces and Girl Cultures

a "Cabbage Patch doll, a Nancy Drew novel, a recent edition of Seventeen magazine or a television show...the commodities of girls ...

Animals and Minds

In five pages this paper examines if animals have minds with the differences and similarities that exist between the mental facult...

Illness and the Relationships Between Body, Mind, and Language

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

Criminally-Minded Mothers

be better. This is a condition for young women in many situations, and thus also applies to women who ultimately commit crimes who...

An Overview of A Beautiful Mind

who works with Nash sees him doing essentially crazy things and putting documents in drop boxes. He reports him to the superiors a...

Extraordinary Minds by Howard Gardner

malign) (Gardner 49). By the time the twins are born, B has had 1,300 positive experiences, while M has had 1,300 negative experie...

Stanislav Grof's The Holotropic Mind

could have come into existence through the random interactions of inert matter has aptly been compared to that of a tornado blowin...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Bowlby, Sullivan, Freud, Erikson, and Piaget

accommodate it by adjusting already-held beliefs or the person must reject the information. One or the other must be chosen in ord...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Threat In His Mind'

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

An Address of Specific Questions Concerning Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind

commands the attention of the other students because he is so gifted. He doesnt really seem to be part of the group-Nash was a no...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

The Quiet Room from a Critical Perspective

sent home with the "flu", Schillers research later in life discovered that her camp records stated that she had a mental breakdown...

Success, Intelligence, and Money

which seems to reinforce this notion. Contemporary philosopher and lecturer Jacob Needleman observes, "Money is like a mirror to ...

Realist Theory and 911 Terrorist Attacks

the very opposite of democracy which strives for peaceful relations - evidenced by an absence of war and tyranny (Democratic Peace...

C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Capturing Readers' Minds

rather dull and dismal life? In this land are animals that talk, evil witches which control people and animals, and most important...