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    Question 3 Being certain about something can sometimes be misleading or misunderstood. You either assure certainty or question doubt. You can easily be a cocky football player‚ think you have the best team‚ and go into the game knowing you’re going to win and have no doubt that the other team is better than you‚ but end up losing. But as soon as you have doubt and get intimidated by the other team you instantly try your best to win the game‚ no matter the obstacles and challenges you go through

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    transition‚ transcending the Cartesian Dilemma‚ aka‚ Descartes’ Mind/Body dualism. Although we are each a single individual‚ our minds and our bodies seem to exist in two separate worlds which operate on separate rules. The dilemma is unifying the two‚ made possible by transcending the duality entirely. This allows the emergence of de-limited spirit which then provides the world with a third path‚ the Path of Neo‚ the path of peace. Descartes‚ like the crew on the Nebuchadnezzar‚ has faith that

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    that are shown throughout the film. These core ideas are that the line between good and evil is blurred‚ the protagonist is relatable‚ and that moral order is restored in the end. All of these ideas and many more were shown in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. One of the ideas that shows up is the line between good and evil being blurred and this is shown through Young Charlie. At the beginning of this film‚ Charlie was an innocent‚ young schoolgirl who was bored with her ordinary life. At the end of the

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    Rene Descartes and John Locke attempt to clarify what the self is and how the psyche and body are connected. Rene Descartes is normally viewed as the "father of present day logic" and was brought up in the French privileged and instructed at the Jesuit College of La Fléche. John Locke spent his initial life in the English farmland. He taught rationality and the works of art at Oxford until he earned a restorative degree and swung to pharmaceutical. The boss contrast in the middle of Descartes and

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    René Descartes was a very renowned French philosopher and mathematician. One of his most famous works is his book Meditations on First Philosophy. In this book Descartes asks and answers one simple question; does God exist? As one reads through Descartes meditations‚ they are presented with multiple proofs as Descartes attempts to prove that god exists. One of the premises of Descartes’ proofs is that “there must be as much formal reality in the cause of an idea as there is objective reality in the

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    1. What for Descartes is the first indubitable truth and why? Descartes discovered his first indubitable truth is that he‚ himself‚ did exist. He used his methods of doubt to discount anything he thought he knew previously. He doubted everything his senses had told him because‚ according to Descartes‚ what he may have seen or heard might not necessarily be real. He also was not convinced that what he did in his waking life could have been while he was dreaming and‚ therefore‚ might also be false

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    John Fowlkes Anne Mamary Modern Philosophy 26 February 2024 Connections of Three Thinkers René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy is a very unique and interesting perspective in philosophical thought on knowledge and reality. Our main focus in his perspective is the idea of opposing concepts‚ whether that be doubt and certainty‚ mind and body‚ or my specifically chosen pair‚ Finite and Infinite. There is an interesting relationship between two opposing ideas that I will do my best to delve

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    Early philosopher Rene Descartes aimed to defeat skepticism with his strategy of doubting everything. In the matter of perception‚ Descartes believed that nothing should be believed to hold any truth unless it undoubtedly‚ clearly‚ consistently proved to be. He even went as far as stating that the only thing he was certain existed was himself‚ or rather‚ his mind and rationality. This was in fact his first rule to acquiring knowledge. His goal was to challenge anything and everything that he was

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    an infinite being through the negation‚ that is‚ through the conception of it as opposed to their limited human. Doubt and desire comes from an understanding that we are missing something‚ and we will not be aware of the lack thereof‚ unless we were aware of a more perfect existence that there are things that we lack. While he may suspect the existence of other things‚ he cannot doubt the existence of God‚ because he has an awareness of the existence of God clear and distinct way. This idea has infinite

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    Proving the Devine‚ Descartes Second Meditation For years scholars and philosophers have debated if god exists. One of the most prominent minds to attempt to tackle this problem was Rene Descartes. In Meditation III from his book Meditation on First Philosophy Descartes presents an argument for the existence of god. Descartes essentially argues that the idea of god has more reality then he dose and that therefore it couldn’t have originated from him or any other being with the same amount of reality

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