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In six pages Descartes' knowledge philosophy is examined in terms of dreams and reality as it pertains to the principles he outlin...

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 discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

In six pages this paper applies Kantian philosophy to Jack in the Box in this examination of consumer protection issues and the fe...

In this paper consisting of five pages the philosophy MacIntyre describes in 'After Virtue' is applied to the ethics of academic d...

comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...

In six pages this research paper examines Descartes' 'I think therefore I am' argument regarding existence. Six sources are cited...

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

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

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

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

they could utilize embryos that are not in use. Tens of thousands of embryos are stored in clinics in the United States and some a...

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

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

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

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...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

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

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

(Romans & Kiernan, 2002). Of course, that is debatable. Opinion enters the picture, but if a claim can be proven false, then one c...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...