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    Philosophy Exam 2

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    Philosophy Exam Essay Question 1: Earnestly‚ Descartes ponders over the course of Meditation IV how an all-powerful and seemingly benevolent God could allow man to believe errors and falsehoods. In Meditation IV‚ Descartes compared God to a master craftsman‚ so wouldn’t it seem that his craft would be without mistake. Undoubtedly‚ Descartes is befuddled by the concept of sometimes believing in falsehoods although he was created by an infinitely perfect being‚ isn’t believing in falsehoods supposed

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    Questions on Descartes’ Meditations I & II (Jan. 22) 1. For Descartes‚ why can’t knowledge gained through sense experience be trusted as the basis of knowledge? 2. How are the doubts raised by our experience of dreaming different from‚ and more profound than‚ doubts raised about errors in sense experience? 3. How is the evil genius argument intended to be broader in scope than either the arguments about doubting sense experience or dreaming? 4. Why can’t the evil genius deceive Descartes into thinking

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    impressions play a part in our experiences in the mind and the body. Locke’s objection was more understanding that Humes’s because he made more points on the subject‚ he had more information on the topic and he also made more since of the subject. Descartes objection seemed to be based on the imagery of god‚ Humes objection was us using more of an impression than us using both our body and

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    Rene Descartes’ third meditation from his book Meditations on First Philosophy‚ examines Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God. The purpose of this essay will be to explore Descartes’ reasoning and proofs of God’s existence. In the third meditation‚ Descartes states two arguments attempting to prove God’s existence‚ the Trademark argument and the traditional Cosmological argument. Although his arguments are strong and relatively truthful‚ they do no prove the existence of God. At the

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    on The Enlightenment‚ Descartes‚ Discourse on Method English 1150 Respond to the questions below in your own words‚ please. No copying and pasting from Wikipedia or any other online source. Any homework paper that is submitted in this fashion will receive a zero. Homework may be type or hand written. 1. Answer the following questions on the Enlightenment. What period of time is typically assigned this title? Who were some of its major figures (besides Descartes‚ of course)? What ideas

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    is Descartes way of explaining the theory of skepticism. It is a perfect situation in which Descartes explains that he is in a warm room by a fire‚ wearing his pajamas‚ and holding a piece of paper. At this same time‚ Descartes realizes that this could be a dream‚ because he can dream the same thing. From this conclusion‚ Descartes realizes that he cannot trust his senses because he cannot prove he is or is not dreaming. This is where I start to disagree with skepticism and slightly Descartes‚ after

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    The Origin of Enlightenment

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    Q. How far is it true that madness before the enlightenment is understood in primarily religious terms? Origin of Enlightenment During the enlightenment period fact named itself in a manner that would later enlighten compatriots. The Enlightenment was one of rare movements in human history associated with 17th and 18th century. Scholars argue that it begun way back primarily in Paris and London. Basically this period was to see a great positive shift in tyranny‚ ignorance‚ superstition and to

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    the existence of propositional knowledge without any experimental grounding. Descartes believed that we only have the idea of God because God gave us the idea of himself; he argued that the concept of God was one of a perfect being. As we have never experienced complete perfection‚ without being born with the knowledge of a perfect being‚ we wouldn’t be able to produce it. An argument against this is to argue if Descartes is able to say that the God he has in his mind is actually an idea‚ this leads

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    METAPHYSICS: ONTOLOGY: DUALISM VS. MATERIALISM The original idea of the word ’philosophy ’ was a ’love of wisdom ’ (Cowan 2). Philosophy is meant to explore the ’big questions ’ and try to find answers as best we can in the time we have been given. One of the areas of study in philosophy is metaphysics‚ which deals in the ideas of the nature of reality. "We look at the world‚ and we assume that it is the way it appears to be. It is not." (Carreira 7). There is much to reality that can be discussed

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    by Amber Kramer Summary Essay: The Dark Night of the Soul Richard E. Miller essay “The Dark Night of the Soul” to be an interesting way to think about reading and writing in today’s world. Richard uses the violence in the world to question if our educational system is relevant to keeping us safe and whether the power literature can be used to change the tragic event that happen around us every day. Richard begins with a few horrific events such as Columbine

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