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here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

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...

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

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...

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

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

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

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...

at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

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

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

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

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

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

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

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

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

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

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

In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...

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