different perspective and thoughts on the theories. Plato wrote about justice‚ courage and wisdom. He also examined poetry and is famous for his work‚ Republic. As for Aristotle‚ he wrote about logic and meaning and reasoning. He also wrote about metaphysics‚ music‚ poetry‚ and theatre. Aristotle was big on epistemology in universals and souls. He would incorporate his philosophical work in using science for reasoning. Aristotle’s intellectual range was from biology‚ chemistry‚ ethics‚ psychology‚
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Throughout time both philosophers’ theories have ignited arguments when it comes to the conception of “substance.” Although both were around about the same time period‚ one heavily juxtaposed the other and criticized severely. At the end of the day both philosophers had an entire and total different idea of what substance was. To begin with‚ Descartes‚ divided the world into two kinds of substances. He divided it by the “res cogitas” and “res extensa‚” which translates into “thinking substance‚
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It has to do with cosmology‚ which is an extension of metaphysics that consists with the Universe as an orderly system. St. Thomas Aquinas first introduces the Cosmological argument in the Summa Theologica‚ where he discusses topics such as; the existence‚ simplicity‚ and will of God. St. Thomas challenges us
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References: Aristotle. 1966. Aristotle ’s Metaphysics. Grinnell‚ Iowa: The Peripatetic Press. Bray‚ G. (2003). AUGUSTINE ’S KEY. Christian History‚ 22(4)‚ 42. Clark‚ K. J.‚ & Poortenga‚ A. (2003). The story of ethics: Fulfilling our human nature. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall. Campolo‚ T.
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The True Essence of Substance Esha Jain Descartes and Spinoza are both regarded as rationalists‚ and for good reason. There is quite a bit of similarity in the methodology used by both modern philosophers as they try to make sense of the world and establish what is true. Both philosophers have implemented an orderly way to construct their arguments as a way to seek the perfect‚ whole truth. One essential truth that both Descartes and Spinoza strive to understand is on the matter of substance. Descartes
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single mental state can be “realized” by organisms with vastly different physiologies‚ multiple realizability is often claimed to be a threat to type-physicalist theories which reduce the mental to the physical. In “Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction‚” Kim argues not against the thesis of multiple realizability itself‚ but rather against the common view that it effectively disproves reductionist physicalism and‚ as a result‚ proves that special sciences like psychology are autonomous
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INTFILO Rationalist believe in Apriori. Apriori comes before sense experience. EMPIRICISM – Senses (Page 191) 1. JOHN LOCKE – TABULA RASA = BLANK STATE Notebook Mind begins with clear state We use our senses to find out about the world Sense data or qualities World existing outside of us Primary qualities: Scientific characteristics of an object Substrata – what truly exists / reality a. HINDU MYSTIC – praying and sitting on a bed of nails What supports the Earth? A white elephant What supports
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Descartes’ Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem Ashley Bell South University Online Introduction to Philosophy | PHI2301 S02 Week 3‚ Assignment 2 Matthew Newland 01/04/2017 Descartes planned the cogito‚ the possibility that since one considers‚ they should fundamentally exist ("I think therefore I am")(South University‚ 2016). This attestation shapes the establishment for his framework demonstrating that our tactile observations are dependable. This reality is basic for science. By the
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powers understand the objects of condition related to the intelligible species (467). In both cases‚ both species involved are instruments used to either sense or perceive. He also demonstrated some similarity to the concepts existent in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Aquinas suggests that an action is twofold: “one which remains in the agent (for instance to see and to understand)‚ and another which passes into an external object” (for instance‚ to heat or to
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BENEDICT SPINOZA If one were to make a list of iconoclastic and radical thinkers‚ Benedict Spinoza would rank high. His great and enduring work‚ Ethics‚ continues to have renewed impact‚ currently among environmentalists and ecologically minded thinkers. Spinoza wrote numerous philosophical‚ political‚ and religious criticism works. His efforts consistently express a mind set in favor of religious tolerance and in opposition to traditional religious orthodoxy. In his two major works‚ Tractatus
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