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    picture of nature and people’s feeling towards the life in the countryside which fill with peace‚ hope‚ and love. Beethoven wrote in his sketchbook “recollections of country life...more an expression of feeling than of painting”.If people describe his Fifth symphony is dark or driven‚ Sixth symphony is more like someone walks down a countryside road under the sunshine‚ enjoy the fresh air and listen to various sounds come from the nature. He described himself “No one can love the country as much as I

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    Demol 1 Alexis Demol Mr. Feduck ENG4U-03 July 16‚ 2014 Rebirth and Renaming‚ Fifth Business Robertson Davies shows how rebirth is similar to shedding a layer of skin. Like a snake‚ Dunstan Ramsey‚ Percy Boyd Staunton and Paul Dempster all shed a layer of their past at some point in Fifth Business. The term rebirth‚ means to be reborn either mentally or physically. Dunstan Ramsey shed’s a layer of skin every time he is renamed‚ which occurs four times throughout the entire novel. The first

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    Rene Descartes has revolutionized the way of philosophy to focus about the nature of being. The two methods in his first work “Discourse on Method” changed philosopher’s focus on the questions of knowing and put aside the questions of being. Method of inquiry advises that you approach questions in an orderly fashion. Also the Method of doubt tells us not to acknowledge anything unless you identify it to be true. Both methods will aid on moving from one truth to another and gain a better understanding

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    Descartes: Proofs of God/Deception and Error Instructions: First: Analyze and evaluate the two proofs of God’s existence. How are they different? Is one more convincing than the other? Why did Descartes think he needed two proofs? Do they do different work for him? And secondly: Does Descartes give a satisfactory account of human error‚ given a perfect and divine creator? Are Descartes’ arguments convincing‚ or does it still seem unnecessary and less than perfect that God created us with

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    First Draft Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business explores the nature of physical appearance in relation to religious aptitude. Through the characters Liselotte Vitzliputzli‚ Padre Ignacio Blazon‚ and the narrator and protagonist‚ Dunstan Ramsay‚ Davies shows the correlation between explicitly physically ugly characters and their spiritual and religious enlightenment. Davies draw special attention to the physical appearances of these characters in his intense descriptions of them‚ using extreme depictions

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    Why is God so important to Descartes’ philosophical project in the Meditations? Answer with reference to Descartes’ attempts to prove the existence of God in Meditation 3. The existence of God has an extreme influence on the majority of philosophical debate and questioning and no more so than with Descartes and his meditations. His meditations and his method of approaching philosophical questioning all derive from a rationalist ideology. Therefore he argues that all humans are thinking beings

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    Connections and Contrasts of Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes | | | | The Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy‚ and important to the evolution of natural sciences. In this work‚ Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism. Descartes modified it to account for a truth he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything

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    goes out clubbing‚ he finds himself turning off his alarm‚ waking up again. However‚ no scene in which Neo physically goes to bed exists in the film. Also‚ the movie builds an unreal environment around the main character. After reading René DescartesMeditations on Philosophy‚ one can find him- or herself debating whether Neo is dreaming or being deceived by an evil demon. Although there is evidence present for both of these possibilities‚ and we cannot be metaphysically certain of one or the other

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    the origin of knowledge. Two of the most famous philosophers of epistemology are rationalist Rene Descartes and empiricist David Hume. Rationalism is the idea that reason and logic are the foundation of knowledge. It states that awareness is instinctive‚ and that it cannot come from sources such as the senses. Rationalists theorize that people are all born with the foundations

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    By examining Fifth Business‚ it is clear that the characters take part in theatricizing life: they play and cast others into roles founded in archetypes. The characters feel a need to do this because it provides stability in their lives. Playing a role gives a person an identity and purpose so that‚ even in face of unpredictability‚ their self-image and future is a given constant. Imposing such roleplaying on the rest of humankind familiarizes the outside world and gives a person an escape from volatile

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