Melissa A. Reeves Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Essay 02/14/2014 Phil 201-B15 Liberty University Professor Ronald Kuykendall In comparing the movie The Matrix and the readings from Plato and Descartes‚ the major similarity found among the three is deception. It is the deception of the mind that these excerpts deal with. The idea of being in an illusion or reality is addressed. All three take into account sense perceptions. Also‚ all three have an outside influence that is controlling the
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This essay will focus on distinguishing the difference between what it is to be a material thing and a thinking René Descartes supports the claim that we as humans are made up of two separate substances‚ a mind and body‚ and this is what distinguishes a thinking thing or human being‚ from a material thing Peter Strawson critiques this argument and presents us with a strong rebuttal with two key arguments‚ the problem of the subject side and the identity and numerability argument. He is able to sway
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The logic behind Descartes’ second premise can be explained thus‚ he says a cold object such as a pot of water cannot become hot unless something else causes that heat. But‚ the cause must have a high degree as the effect. For it is impossible for one level of reality (the boiling water) to be produced by a cause that is less than the effect (a cold stove). Just as heated water is an effect that requires a cause‚ so Descartes’ idea of an infinite and perfect being is an
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the day I was born‚ I have constantly been presented with new information. As this new information is processed in my head‚ I discover new things‚ create new beliefs within my mind‚ and reach new levels of understanding. Unfortunately‚ I ’ve learned that not all the beliefs I hold are based on fact. I often misunderstand the facts or confuse the ideas that I already possess. When I was young‚ I often believed certain things to be fact‚ merely because my elders had told me so‚ that I now recognize
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Descartes begins his Third Meditation knowing very little. By the end of the previous meditation‚ he has established that he exists as a thinking thing that thinks in many different ways. Armed with such little certainty‚ Descartes begins a seemingly impossible task- to prove the existence of God‚ armed with only these facts and rational thinking. He concludes his proof with the verdict that God is in fact the only thing that could cause his own idea of his creator. Descartes’ proof rests in part
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Descartes suggests the viewpoint that the human body and the human mind are two completely different things with different functions. The viewpoint is called Dualism‚ and holds that both the physical world and the immaterial world exist. Dualism is based on two substances‚ which are mind and matter. Descartes explained that these two does not necessarily need one another to exist. In Descartes’ Dualism‚ the body is considered to be a material substance‚ and the mind is considered to be an immaterial
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Rene Descartes was born in La Haye‚ Touraine‚ France in 1596 to mother Jeanne Brochard and father Joachim Descartes. At four days old‚ René was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church of Saint George in his home village. Before he was one year old‚ his mother died‚ leaving his father to send Rene and his two older siblings to live with their grandmother. When he was eight years old Rene was sent to school for seven years at the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Flèche and became a boarder there at
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specifically have tried to prove that their theory is the best they are Descartes‚ Epictetus‚ and Leibniz. Descartes believes that reason is good for proving God exists and reason shows us we exist. Epictetus believes that reason is useful for proving what good actually is and that reason gives us freedom. Leibniz believes reason is good because it proves the existence of God and helps prove that our universe did not form by accident. Descartes believes that reason is good for proving that God exists. He
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3: The Certainty that God Is After reading the two paragraphs written by scholars I have come to three different conclusions. The author of the first argument claims that God does in fact exist and he is also infinite. The author of the second argument claims that humans are not capable of comprehending the idea of infinite‚ therefore we cannot argue that God is infinite or that he exists at all. Finally‚ Descartes claims that by The Method of Doubt‚ God is the one idea that cannot be doubted. Therefore
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Rene Descartes was a famous French scientist‚ mathematician and philosopher. Descartes’ philosophy has grown from his life. Let’s see how he lived and his philosophies appeared and grow. He was the first philosopher of his times who made an effort to defeat skepticism. His views about knowledge and about the relationship between mind and body were very influential over centuries. Descartes may be considered as the first in the modern school of mathematics. In 1596 on March 31 Descartes was born
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