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Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Sensory Perceptions and Descartes' Argument

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

Body and Mind Distinction

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

The Zen of La Llorona by Deborah Miranda

of her mother, her mothers mother, and herself. She illustrates how her mothers birth almost cost Mirandas grandmothers death. She...

Works of David Carson

even know such a field as graphic art existed until he was 27 years of age and up until he became involved in art he was a profess...

Descarte & the Somatic Marker Hypothesis

This essay addresses Descartes and the error known a the somatic market hypothesis. In this discussion, the writer differentiates ...

Psychology and Its Philosophical Foundations

In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...

Overview of a Reported Customer Service Experience

the conceptual perspectives of theorists like David Kolb, who asserted the value of understanding experiential learning, and Kolbs...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

W.E.B. DuBois

that time Great Barrington had perhaps 25, but not more than 50, Black people out of a population of about 5,000" (Hynes, 2007). T...

Literary Critique: The "Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations"

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

Did Descartes Question His Own Thought Process?

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

Christo: Life and Works

Galerie Schmela, D?sseldorf" (The-Artists.org., 2007). Then in 1964 he moved to New York where he began what was called his "store...

Inductive and Metaphysical Skepticism and Meeting Their Challenges

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

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley by Jupiter Hammon and To S.M. a Young African Painter on Seeing His Work by Phillis Wheatley

would lead one to believe there is any religious elements in the poem, the manner in which she presents the poem is, again, filled...

Seneca's On Noise and Plutarch's A Consolation to His Wife

that as long as the noise is a sort of general background roar, he can ignore it, but when he can make out individual voices, it b...

A Review of The Thief Lord

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...

Annotated Bibliography on the Harlem Renaissance

anger that lead to one of the most fertile periods in American history. I have chosen to approach the Harlem Renaissance through ...

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

A Review of Commodifying Bodies - Man, Machines And Body Parts

components invented in the 1940s that ultimately paved the way for computer technology - the only people who were capable of opera...

The Historical Significance of Black Boy by Richard Wright

they know that to rebel would be disastrous. Then, just a short while later he begins to notice, for the very first time in his...

Personal Identity of David Hume

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

SWOT Analysis of a Construction Site's Hazardous Working Conditions

project, with each employee being run through the rules, tested for their knowledge of the rules and demonstrating the correct and...

Chaucer

Chaucer was the sheer difficult nature of surviving in his times. It was a time when infant mortality was high, when struggles abo...

Armstrong's Argument Compared with Descartes' Metaphysics

This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Excessive Skepticism and David Hume

able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...