Abstract and Referential Ontology: Descartes Versus Spinoza on the Existence of God. The concept of God is central to the development of Cartesian and Spinozan philosophy. Although both philosophers employ an ontological argument for the existence and necessity of God the specific nature of God differs greatly with each account. While Descartes suggests a Judeo-Christian concept of God‚ Spinoza argues a more monistic deity similar to that of the Hindu tradition. The most significant difference
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Tutorial 1 Your Name: Partner’s Names: Section:_____________ _______________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ VECTORS This assignment will introduce the use of the Cartesian Coordinate System‚ vector notation‚ and properties of vectors to find corresponding unit vectors and resultant forces. The dot product will also be introduced. Each group will choose the origin of a coordinate system in the room and will identify
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Descartes famously a rationalist believed that true knowledge about the world comes from reason and without experience. Descartes initiated his claim about the self by doubting. He doubted everything‚ including his own existence‚ and that doubt itself is the only certainty. Accordingly‚ he assumed that his thoughts were the only thing not to be doubted. The answer to his existence was his cogito argument‚ “I think‚ therefore I am”; ‘cogito ergo sum’. This means that the existence of a thinking substance
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many philosophers are not in favour of dualistic ontology. In the course of addressing this question‚ the origins of the mind and body problem will be discussed‚ which will then permit a fully focussed evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of Cartesian Interactionist Dualism. Whilst looking at the support for Descartes’ theory I will explore arguments from Madell‚ David Chalmers and T.H Huxley amongst others. Conversely‚ whilst addressing the criticism of Interactionist Dualism‚ I will explore
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Subjective‚ Intersubjective‚ Objective: Philosophical Essays Volume 3 Donald Davidson Print publication date: 2001 Print ISBN-13: 9780198237532 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: Nov-03 DOI: 10.1093/0198237537.001.0001 The Myth of the Subjective Donald Davidson DOI: 10.1093/0198237537.003.0003 Abstract and Keywords This chapter is a direct attack on the idea of a subjective–objective dichotomy resulting in a fundamental distinction between uninterpreted experience and an organizing
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not know why they are in there‚ but none the less‚ they seem to always follow it. Following Descartes arguments‚ people crave and need to figure out if the things that surround them are true. Due to this‚ people find themselves in the Cartesian Circle. The Cartesian Circle is the endless cycle that people enter when they are not sure if everything that is around them is true. They find themselves doubting everything‚ even their existence. Like Descartes they are lost and not able to find their way
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of God‚ which can only be erroneous if Descartes clarity and distinctness rule is incorrect. Since the argument of God is used for the validation of the clarity and distinctness rule‚ and the rule itself implicitly must prove that God exists‚ the Cartesian circle is created. For an argument to be circular‚ one of the premises must be reliant upon the conclusion for its truth. If you touch on one argument‚ you touch on both. There are a few ways out of the circle. One way would be to look at the argument
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Contiuum: Reality in the views of Physic and Arts Many things happen spontaneously. Many things exist simultaneously. The law of nature would be a description of what has been maintaining this order. While the truth of reality might never be found via experimental means‚ physicists approach the problem from philosophical standpoints and artists approach through creativity. Einstein in his General and Special Theory of Relativity proposed visualisations to a Minkowskian four-dimensional reality
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might not really exist‚ and the demon was magicking up an illusion for him. A modern equivalent would be the Matrix or being in a computer simulation.1 Today‚ the term for being sceptical about all things except one’s own existence is known as ‘Cartesian doubt’‚ an eponymous tribute to Descartes. Cogito ergo sum was Descartes’ answer to his question of what could be said to be definitively true. The only thing a person thinking about knowledge can know exists‚ Descartes concluded‚ is that they
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oseph William Watson Andrew Short PHIL 3020 November‚ 2010 Mind-Walk Take-Home Mid-Term Question #1 According to Sonia‚ “life is simply self-organization”. She explains why “life is self-organization” in three different categories .The first category in Sonia’s self-organization theory is self-maintaining. Self-maintaining basically states that life depends on many different things‚ however it doesn’t determines the things it wants. One example that is related is based on our environment
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