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what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

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...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

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...

"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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

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

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...

entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

Poetics by Aristotle is used as a springboard for this topic. Aristotle's take on tragedy is the focus of this paper. This five ...