SEARCH RESULTS

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

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

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

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...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

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...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...