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    Rationalism is the principle that maintains that through reason alone we can gain at least some positive knowledge of the world. The three major rationalists‚ Rene Descartes‚ Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Welhelm Leibniz‚ used this idea in order to defy skepticism and expose the true nature of reality. However‚ each philosopher is frequently in disagreement. The idea for ‘God’‚ and what constitutes substance‚ matter and reality are the four key structural beliefs that aid each rationalist in the forming

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    Locke and Rene Descartes were two of the most influential philosophers of the 17th century. The two of them both sought answers to aid them in understanding things about knowledge‚ such as how we attain it and what exactly it is‚ and they also had differing opinions about whether or not there was absolute certainty in knowledge. Although it can be said that the philosophies of Locke and Descartes were different‚ I believe that they have a few things in common. Both Locke and Descartes definitions

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    Galileo‚ Descartes‚ and Newton were only some of the enlightened thinkers responsible for the shift in scientific understanding. Previously‚ science in Europe did little without relying on the church‚ but these scientific thinkers set the stage for a modern scientific model that separated the spiritual from the physical and strived to learn the natural laws that governed the physical world. Each one of these men‚ through their different researches‚ helped Europe see a world that was not necessarily

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    The fundamental idea of Descartes was that he would have these short arguments by asking whether it was possible doubting the vital intentions of arithmetic and geometry. Descartes was hoping to find certain material and knowledge. He was for sure that the knowledge was real. He wanted to find something solid before he could build upon it with more knowledge. He stated that knowledge came from speaking. When it came to the ideas of Bacon‚ he did not give an actual philosophy‚ but rather a method

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    The mind/body dualism introduced to us in the first reading “Minds and bodies”‚ is the theory that our minds and bodies are two separate things. To René Descartes‚ the mind controls everything about the body‚ it is self-contained and self-enclosed. The body is just an extension of our minds. It is unconscious‚ lifeless and acted upon. This theory comes from the belief that everything in this world can be doubted‚ there is no real proof that what our eyes are seeing is real thus there is no proof

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    Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy carries one of the most plausible metaphysical arguments that has ever emerged in the area of philosophy. The cogito argument seems to sustain the most thorough form of skepticism and provides Descartes base from which he can progress a perfect metaphysic. The cogito argument benefits as the base assumption for his general metaphysical thesis. However‚ upon critical monitoring it becomes clear that the reasonable qualities of the cogito and other production

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    education‚ Descartes traveled the world and closely observed everything he saw. On his reasoning for this‚ he wrote what I argue to be as close a definition as one can reach for what it means to be a healthy‚ growing human. His reason for traveling the world came down to his theory that he could “encounter much more truth in the reasonings that each man makes about the affairs that concern him‚ and whose outcome must punish him immediately afterward if he has judged badly” (Descartes 84). This is

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    Descartes Myth Gilbert Ryle Gilbert Ryle is a professor who challenged the beliefs of Descartes and his theory on mind-body-separation‚ he organized them into four doctrines‚ and they are as follows: The Official Doctrine: This part deals with the human body and mind‚ how they are interconnected but still different at the same time. He displays the physical human body to be a public affair and something that all in this world can visually see; the mind however‚ is a much more private and personal

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    NOTES – JOHN STUART MILL - UTILITARIANISM 1. John Stuart Mill – On Virtue and Happiness (1863)The utilitarian doctrine is‚ that happiness is desirable‚ and the only thing desirable‚ as an end; all other things being only desirable as means to that end. What ought to be required of this doctrine‚ what conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfill‚ to make good its claim to be believed? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it.

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