Bibliography: Mason‚ Andrew‚ Plato‚ Acumen‚ October 2010 Toates‚ Frederick‚ Coschug-Toates‚ Olga‚ Obsessive Compulsive Disorder‚ Class Publishing‚ September 2002. John Locke‚ An Essay Concerning Human Understanding‚ eBooks@Adelaide‚ 2014 Descartes‚ René; Moriarty‚ Michael ‚ Meditations on First Philosophy : with Selections from the Objections and Replies‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2008 Prado‚ C.G‚ Starting with Descartes‚ Continuum International Publishing‚ June 2009 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1590998/
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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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HIS-101 WESTERN CIVILIZATION I Briefly explain what is meant by the “scientific revolution” that took place in seventeenth century Europe‚ and how it marked a departure from ancient and medieval philosophy. The term Scientific Revolution refers to a period in the 17th century when the intellects of Europe had a revolution. This was an illustrious time for science and the initiation of modern science. During that period famous people such as Copernicus‚ Galileo‚ Kepler‚ and Isaac Newton all
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Kevin Chrisayrton Purnomo Brian Weydemuller English 1A Section 28 5/5/2013 Evolving Through Ignorance Socrates Café‚ a book written by Christopher Phillips that unfolds his story on facilitating lots of free discussion forum in a lot of different places. But what is Socrates Café itself? It is a place; a place for people who wonder‚ a place for people with different backgrounds to immerse their own self into questions and ideas and dogmas through Socratic Method. Phillips made an effort to
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Notes on chapter 2 pg.14-25 Socrates: The First Moralist Socrates (c.470-399 B.C) he was 70 years old when he died‚ his father was Sophroniscus‚ a sculptor‚ his mother Phaenarete‚ was a midwife. Socrates was likely a stonemason and a sculptor before turning to philosophy. He was a soldier during the Peloponnesian War. He has walked barefoot across ice‚ meditated standing up for thirty-six hours. He had the ability to ignore physical discomfort in order to achieve some greater mental or spiritual
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Surrealist artists always create something which people think are nonsense‚ because their creation is influenced by their imagination and it is something that comes from dreams. There were lots of famous artists who came from the surrealism movement; Rene Magritte is one of the popular artists within this movement. Unlike other surrealist artists’ work‚ of rich and complex layers‚ Magritte’s works are straight forward and
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people have argued the existence of a God‚ but the main four points; there is no scientific proof‚ religion contradicts itself‚ the idea that God is omniscient‚ and omnipotent‚ and if a God created the universe‚ then who created God? Philosopher Rene Descartes tries to explain the
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How successful are Descartes’ arguments for the real distinction of mind from body? Upon which would you put the most weight? Using the arguments from doubt‚ from clear and distinct perceptions‚ and from simplicity‚ Descartes attempts to prove in “The Meditations” that the mind (that is the soul or the “thinking thing”) is distinct and separate from the body (the extended‚ unthinking thing). This view is now known as Cartesian Dualism. In this essay I will outline Descartes’ main arguments
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Essay Choice 1 In the First Meditation‚ Descartes gives us the Evil Demon Hypothesis which serves to give him reason to doubt the existence of everything he perceives and believes. He describes a ‘malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning’ that has the sole purpose of deceiving Descartes (Descartes‚ 2010: 17). I will argue that his hypothesis has proven to be a strong one because only the cogito provides a way for us to frustrate or trick the evil demon. The Evil Demon Hypothesis is an
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Comments and Criticisms on Meditation III Clear and Distinct Perception The Cogito is the one undubitable item that Descartes arrives at. But having reached this certain proposition‚ in the second paragraph of Meditation II he goes on to claim that it also gives him a criterion for truth. He says that what assures him of the truth of the Cogito is that he perceives it clearly and distinctly and that‚ thus: a statement is true if‚ and only if‚ it is perceived clearly and distinctly. This is
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