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In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

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

that there are some tips toward combating stress and its effect on the human body. Taking time out each day to perform stress-bust...

clutter and entanglements with regular meditation is one of the most effective ways to maintain a healthy existence. "The basis o...

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

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

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...

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

the most effective means of treatment. Stress is, in fact, a reaction; not the event or situation which causes the reaction (DeFr...

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

karmic retribution. Zen Buddhists believe that karmic actions result in reincarnation, and that "ones circumstances are the suita...

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

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

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

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

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...