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    DESCARTES ON THE EXTERNAL WORLD Descartes’ made himself belief that nothing exists and starts to doubt himself about everything. First‚ he states that God would never create something that would oppose to another person’s perception then‚ he goes on to say that to imagine something that you need something to imagine about and lastly the ideas perceived by what they call senses has to come from external soul. In the first argument‚ Descartes’ proof of the external world carries a lot of arguments

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    Descartes and the Matrix

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    in Mediations on First Philosophy‚ Rene Descartes‚ nothing can be certain. Similarly‚ in The Matrix‚ the Wachowski brothers raise the question of how does anyone know what is real and what is not? The Wachowski brothers and Descartes describe their ideas about knowledge and epistemology through skepticism. Knowledge is a justified‚ true belief. According to Descartes‚ knowledge comes from two sources: Experiences‚ which are the senses‚ and reason. Descartes starts his argument by stating that many

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    Descartes Dualism

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    How successful are Descartes’ arguments for the real distinction of mind from body? Upon which would you put the most weight? Using the arguments from doubt‚ from clear and distinct perceptions‚ and from simplicity‚ Descartes attempts to prove in “The Meditations” that the mind (that is the soul or the “thinking thing”) is distinct and separate from the body (the extended‚ unthinking thing). This view is now known as Cartesian Dualism. In this essay I will outline Descartes’ main arguments‚

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    certainty. Rene Descartes used methodic doubt to attain an absolute certainty and came to a conclusion “Cogito‚ ergo sum” meaning ‘I think‚ therefore I am”. To achieve this he thought up the deceiving demon‚

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    Descartes Dualism

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    dualism is a system of beliefs used to explain the nature of our existence and reality. However‚ there are many problems with dualism‚ the most significant being the mind/body interaction issue which was raised by Elizabeth in her correspondence to Descartes. My essay will firstly expound the key principles of Cartesian dualism. Then‚ I will analyse the problems that Elizabeth raises for dualism and critically evaluate its counter arguments. Ultimately‚ I have concluded that Elizabeth presents a strong

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    As Descartes and Locke worked consistently through out their lives to discover truth‚ many differences as well as similarities arose between the two. In regards to similarities‚ Locke considered all qualities of external objects to fall into one of two categories‚ primary or secondary. As previously mentioned‚ primary qualities are fixed in the object to make it what it is‚ and secondary qualities are all in the eye of the beholder. This idea from Locke agrees precisely with the distinctions made

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    Descartes on colors

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    In this paper‚ I will dissect Descartes current and former beliefs about his-self and the world. I will then argue his belief that he is merely “a thing that thinks” and why that is a flawed belief. Descartes once thought of himself as a man. He was a body that could taste‚ smell‚ see‚ move‚ and most of all; perceive. To achieve his goal of obtaining true knowledge‚ however‚ Descartes decided to rid his mind of all doubt and trust only reason. Descartes purports that most of his knowledge was

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    Rene Descartes

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    Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was born March 31‚ 1596 in La Haye‚ Touraine. Descartes was the son of a minor nobleman and belonged to a family that had produced a number of learned men. At the age of eight‚ he was enrolled in the Jesuit school of La Fleche in Anjou‚ where he remained for eight years. Besides the usual classical studies‚ he received instruction in math and in Scholastic philosophy. Roman Catholicism exerted a strong influence on Descartes throughout his life. Upon graduation

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    Descartes' Meditations

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    Meditations Study Questions 1. Explain Descartes’ method of doubt. What is Descartes purpose in exercising this method? Descartes’ method of doubt is a method of being skeptical about the truth of beliefs. It aims to find things that cannot be doubted 2. Why can’t Descartes be certain about beliefs he acquires through the evidence of the senses? The reason why Descartes cannot be certain of beliefs he’s obtained through his senses is because senses might easily be deceived by someone else

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    Descartes & Hume

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    Rene Descartes was a rationalist‚ meaning he thought that reason alone‚ not sensation or experience‚ was the source to attaining knowledge about the eternal truths of the universe‚ such as mathematics‚ epistemology‚ metaphysics and the existence of God. He excluded physics from this list‚ admitting that knowledge of physics only comes through experience (Descartes). Regardless‚ his rationalistic epistemology made it so that Descartes could only accept the truth about something if it was based upon

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