Descartes’ Third Meditation: Proof of God’s Existence In Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy‚ Descartes is seeking to find a system of stable‚ lasting and certain knowledge‚ which he can ultimately regard as the Truth. In his methodical quest to carry out his task‚ Descartes eventually arrives at the proverbial fork in the road: how to bridge the knowledge of self with that of the rest of the world. Descartes’ answer to this is to prove the existence of God. The purpose of this essay
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Bo Guo Dr. Eric Morton PHIL 2010-200 7 July 2013 Response Paper of Meditation Four‚ Five‚ and Six Descartes talked about the true and the false‚ and how we make mistakes in Meditation Four. Descartes believed that error as such is not something real that depends upon God‚ but rather is merely a defect. And thus there is no need to account for my errors by positing a faculty given to me by God for this purpose(546). He thought that the reason why we make mistakes is that the faculty of
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Stephanie Ethington SPE 103-02 Speech Outline Draft 04/20/12 Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Blood Donation Purpose: To persuade my peers of the need for blood donations. Thesis: The need for blood donors is crucial it could save a life of someone you know or your own. Introduction: A. Imagine you or someone you know needed blood to save their life. For example‚ if you were born with a heart defect and required a transfusion for a chance at life. What if there was no blood
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Sample Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Factory Farming Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that factory farms are dangerous and abusive and therefore need to be banned. Primary Audience Outcome: I the want the audience to join or support national organizations that protest against factory farms. Thesis Statement: The U.S. government should ban factory farms and require the meat industry to raise animals in their natural
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"Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true‚ and thus how doubtful were all those I had subsequently built upon them." (pp.1) The First Meditation opens with Renee Descartes reflecting on all the things that he has been mistaken about‚ and all his beliefs that were built on those false ones. As a result‚ he somehow feels the need to reexamine everything he has believed in the past‚ and has set aside some time
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perfect‚ self-caused being‚ or god. As Antoine Arnauld pointed out in an Objection published along with the Meditations themselves‚ there is a problem with this reasoning. Since Descartes will use the existence (and veracity) of god to prove the reliability of clear and distinct ideas in Meditation Four‚ his use of clear and distinct ideas to prove the existence of god in Meditation Three is an example of circular reasoning. Descartes replied that his argument is not circular because intuitive
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xMatt Harrison Jessica Reyes English 200 March 28‚ 2012 Better to Smoke Air Than Death Smoking has been a long term issue since cigarettes were invented. The high amount of tobacco added many dangers to the mixtures. Not only is smoking dangerous because of its physically altering diseases‚ it also has fatal risks. One of the most common forms of fatality caused by cigarettes is cancer‚ mainly in the throat and lung. Tobacco cigarettes have been taking people’s lives for quite some time now
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May 29th‚ 2013 Course code: 7308 Dr. Sharon Avital Student: 000776790 Theories of Persuasion Writing Assignment Hello‚ my name is Santos Serfaty and I am a recruiting officer representing the LOST (Learn on Saturdays too) Collective‚ and together we are devoted to restructure the undergraduate curriculum so that the students must attend six days a week‚ between 4 to 6 hours a day to the IDC. As a current student at the IDC school of Communications I strongly believe that memory is set
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Osi Odume 12-5-12 6th period Ms. Reese The Real Meaning Of Black Friday Every year‚ in the early morning hours of the day after Thanksgiving‚ a ritual occurs where millions of shoppers gather impatiently outside stores‚ trying to take advantage of special deals. Some camp out for days in the November cold in the hope of buying a new item. When the doors finally swing open to deliver them from the morning chill‚ people swarm in like a cloud of flies‚ jumping on discounted items‚ and the chaos
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Gain attention: Did you imagine that how many hours you work a day after graduated? 6 hours? 8hours? 10 hours? According to a survey by the Census and Statistic Department of the SAR government‚ there are near 40% interviewed employees who were working over 8.5 hours a day and 25% interviewed employees who were working over 10 hours a day‚ which is very long working hours. Introduce topic: Today I am going to persuade you to support the government legislate the law of “Standard Working Hours”
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