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    Question: "Descartes ’ dualist theory of Mind and Body has difficulty explaining how the two interact. What is the problem? Explain and evaluate Descartes ’ attempts to overcome it." Introduction René Descartes (1596-1650) is known as the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Cartesian Dualism" although he was also an outstanding mathematician and scientist for his time. Influenced by notable Western philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle‚ who maintained that man ’s intelligence could not

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    Hume and Descartes on The Theory of Ideas David Hume and Rene Descartes are philosophers with opposing views about the origination of ideas. Descartes believed there were three types of ideas which are‚ innate‚ adventitious and those from imagination. He stated since he exists and his idea of what a perfect being is‚ such as God‚ then God exists. Hume‚ on the other had‚ believed ideas came only from one thing‚ impressions. Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses but I like Hume’s theory

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    Based upon the belief that the mind and body are two separate entities‚ philosophers‚ such as Rene Descartes‚ support the Substance Dualism theory of mind‚ arguing that the mind‚ which is a thinking entity‚ may exist without the body‚ which is a physical extension‚ because it is its own individual substance of matter. In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy‚ he puts all concepts of previous certainty into question‚ intentionally leaving the reader with skepticism towards the concept of knowledge

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    John Locke‚ also a philosopher and political theorist of the 17th century‚ would contend to the idea or theory of Rene Descartes. Locke would say that human knowledge is not natural or inborn; it is rather developed and learned. He indicates that not all human people have this mental knowledge already in their minds. For instance‚ people who are mentally ill do not have these “innate ideas” in their minds. Since there are abnormalities in their brain circuits they cannot think properly like a normal

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    the question‚ what makes certain obtained pieces of knowledge true? Descartes would doubt everything until he came to an absolute and undeniable truth. If he had any reason to doubt something‚ it could not be true knowledge. Descartes then discovered one thing that he could not doubt and that is “I think‚ therefore I am.” He says that if he can think‚ then he knows that he exists. I agree and disagree with Rene Descartes theory of how we have knowledge. Just because you have doubt about something

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    conversion of sucrose to its individual carbohydrates glucose and fructose. It does not catalyse the reaction of maltose to 2 glucose or lactose to galactose. In this experiment‚ titrimetric and spectrophotometric methods were used to determine the specificity of invertase by determining the amount of glucose converted from the given disaccharides. The results show that sucrose yielded the least amount of glucose and got the lowest absorbance reading. INTRODUCTION Enzymes are globular proteins. Their

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    The pain the amputees are complaining about is called phantom limb pain. This pain usually occurs right after an amputation of either an arm‚ leg‚ or a different body part (Flor‚ 2002). Some professionals believe that phantom pain is developed due to the disruption of the nerve activity. These nerves discharge at the place where they were severed during amputation; therefore‚ causing the amputee to feel the pain (King‚ 2006). Other theories believe that phantom pain is all made up in the head. The

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    3-2 Rene Descartes Rene Descartes‚ also known as the “father of modern philosophy”. Descartes was born in the town of La Haye in the south of France‚ on March 31‚ 1596. Rene Descartes spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic. Joachim Descartes his father served in the Parliament of Brittany‚ France as a Councilor. When he is one year old‚ his mother Jeanne Brochard Descartes died. His father remarried‚ while he and his older brother and sister were raised by his grandmother. Descartes was never

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    DESCARTES Descartes is very successful philosophers in 17th century. René Descartes is widely accepted as the father of modern philosophy. He tried to create fundamental philosophy for natural sciences. Descartes mainly focus on his philosophical contributions in the theory of knowledge and his famous work focus on the epistemological project‚ Meditations on First Philosophy. He wants to explain his thought in Meditations on First Philosophy which is as original in philosophical modus as in

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    If God is perfectly good and the source of all that is‚ how is there room for error or falsehood? Descartes attempts to answer this question in Meditation IV: On Truth and Falsity. “If I’ve gotten everything in me from God and He hasn’t given me the ability to make errors‚ it doesn’t seem possible for me ever to error. (Descartes‚ Meditation IV: On Truth and Falsity).” The framework of his arguments center on the Great Chain of Being‚ in which God’s perfect goodness is relative to His perfect being

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