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the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

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

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

In four pages Descartes' contention that the mind is known more easily than the body is evaluated along with a consideration of th...

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Somewhat surprisingly, I find this very difficult to do. This suggests to me that stress and tension, constantly worrying and thin...

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

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...