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and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

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...

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

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...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

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

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...

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...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

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

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

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

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

"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...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

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

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...