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Philosophy as the Practice of Death by Plato as Evaluated by Descartes

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

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

God, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue According to Descartes and Aristotle

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

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...

Mechanistic and Teleological Views of the World

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

Existence, Delusion, Doubt, and Destiny

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

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...

God As Conceptualized by Baruch Spinoza

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

Descartes and Heidegger in Samuel Beckett's Rockaby

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

Ten of History’s Greatest Mathematicians

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

Skeptical Philosophy - An Overview

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...

Philosophy of Doubt and Renee Descartes

This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...

Descartes' Meditations: The Certainty of Truth

the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

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 ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov from the Perspective of Rene Girard

In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...

Roy Lichtenstein and Rene Magritte's Art

he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Hume and Descartes

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...

Discussing the First Meditation of Descartes

Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...

A Look at The Meditations by Descartes

According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...

Dreaming and Descartes' First Meditation

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

A Position Paper on Montaigne and Descartes

little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

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

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Descartes' Second Meditation

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

Knowledge According to Socrates and Descartes

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...