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what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...
This argumentative essay states a position against the restrictions imposed under the Patriot Act due to 9/11. At the end of the e...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...
In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...
In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...
argued that this is true, Plato, but let us bring forth two other philosophers to create a better atmosphere for this discourse. ...
In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...
In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
are comprised of. Dualism and Descartes Descartes believed that the two elements were mind and soul, or mental substance ("gh...
In six pages this paper examines an X Files episode form 1998 in a consideration of whether or not personhood can be experienced b...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...
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 Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
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...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...
off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
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...
Writing essays is both an art and a science. The writer looks at the progress of a students essay writing skills over a set of th...
there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...