The Matrix and Philosophy Welcome to the Desert of the Real Edited by WILLIAM IRWIN For Peter H. Hare‚ Morpheus to many Contents Introduction: Meditations on The Matrix 1 Scene 1 How Do You Know? 3 1. 2. 3. 4. Computers‚ Caves‚ and Oracles: Neo and Socrates WILLIAM IRWIN Skepticism‚ Morality‚ and The Matrix GERALD J. ERION and BARRY SMITH 16 The Matrix Possibility DAVID MITSUO NIXON 28 Seeing‚ Believing‚ Touching‚ Truth CAROLYN KORSMEYER
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Descartes’ Discourse on Method and Meditations Essay In Meditations on First Philosophy‚ Descartes discusses the existence of God. Descartes believes in God and provides two arguments that support his theory. His supporting evidence is that he possess a clear idea of God and second that any cause must be at least as great as it effect. Descartes convinces the reader hat he believes in God‚ but not that God exist. Descartes’ argument fails to be completely convincing because he assumes all people
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WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY Asking questions - Common hobbies of a philosopher -e.g.‚ “Who am I?”‚ “Why are we here?” * Philosophy pursues the Faculty of Wonder. * opens someone’s mind * leads us to more important questions * Philosophy – code of questions * Love of wisdom * Moth in life * Analyzing the different facts of life * Self examination * Study of nature * Three concepts of Philosophy – acc. To Bonifacio 1. Intellectual
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Reflex acts were one of the first human reactions to being studied. Descartes was the first beginning a study model of reflex acts‚ this to be able to demonstrate that the body worked like any other machine. Another scientist in studying this phenomenon‚ Robert Whytt. He was a Scottish physicist and physicist. He inclined his research around action-reflex‚ differentiating voluntary and involuntary movements. Describing the pupil reflex to light (reflecting Whytt)‚ he further proposed that the arches
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Philosophy of Confucius For my essay I have decided to analyze the philosophy of Confucius as seen in The Analects or Lunyu (论语). I will be focusing primarily on what I have found to be the key components underlying Confucian ethics; Filial Piety (Xiao) (孝)‚ Ritual Propriety (Li) (禮) and Authoritative Conduct (Ren) (仁). These three moral concepts are integral aspects of Confucian role ethics; they develop as a counterpart to western philosophy such as Immanuel Kant’s ethics of duty and have remained
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underscores perfect theology and reason‚ making it a compelling contender for the most persuasive argument for the existence of God. It’s crucial to continue discussing and examining these arguments in order to fully grasp their complexities and importance. Descartes’ argument merges cosmology and ontology in order to demonstrate the existence of a supremely perfect being. He argues that the concept of a perfect being is innate to us and cannot originate from anything else. This argument highlights the
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Rene Descartes was a French philosopher that lived from 1596 to 1650. He was rather famous for his works‚ which were published majorly after his death. In this paper‚ I will be arguing Descartes’ method of doubt as well as evaluating his approach to finding the truth of all knowledge. In his Discourse on Method‚ Descartes confessed that at first he believed that to obtain clarity and knowledge one must master their studies and learn as much as possible from the sciences but then he realized he
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Descartes’ Cogito argument and defective nature doubt are mutually damaging to each other’s respective claims. Defective nature dismisses logic yet Cogito uses it‚ by doing so Descartes contradicts himself‚ falling trap to his own scrutiny. Ruling out his own perception‚ how can Descartes make plausible claims when he doubts his very ability to do so? The reasoning behind Descartes’ doubtfulness is that‚ in essence‚ he wants to know what he can and cannot doubt. If Descartes knows what is doubtable
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Descartes argument for the existence of God is based on two main principles. This is the principle of sufficient reasoning and the principle of adequate reality. The principle of sufficient reasoning means that everything has a cause. The principle of adequate reality is followed by sufficient reasoning and means that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as the effect. An example of having at least as much reality in the cause as the effect could be studying for a test and receiving
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Descartes claims in his Discourse on Method that our dreams and conscious thoughts are untrue‚ but is this truly the case? Because of these questions of existence‚ it seems like‚ if Descartes’s arguments are taken a certain way‚ his arguments might be taken to imply that our lives are just a dream. Are we living in a universal soap opera directed by the Divine‚ and the question of who shot J.R. will never be resolved because we will all wake on Judgment Day from the dream of existence? If we are
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