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This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...
In six pages the question 'Does it make any difference whether or not people have free will?' is responded to by this trio of phil...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...
This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...
This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...
In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...
and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
This paper discusses how Christian morality was influenced by Aristotle and Stoic philosophy in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in...
This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...