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This research report examines rationalizations used by Descartes and his own belief system. Various issues are explored and scient...
same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...
This research report looks at one of Descartes' most well known theories. The basis of the Cartesian Circle is duly noted. The ide...
This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...
A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
Jason Fried compares work to sleep because there are phases in each. It takes time to get into deep sleep and this is the only kin...
This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...
and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...
This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...
Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
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...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
This research report is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...
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...
approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...