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    DESCARTES VS. LOCKE: KNOWLEDGE AS VIEWED FROM A FRENCH AND AN ENGLISH PERSPECTIVE Randy Hoang Philosophy 205: Introduction to Philosophy April 17‚ 2016 Descartes vs. Locke: Knowledge as Viewed from a French and an English Perspective Last year‚ I completed Basic Training for the United States Army Reserve. I was compelled to join the Army since my father is a veteran and I had a strong desire to also serve my country. During the training‚ I learned about knowledge and knowledge’s

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    Name Professor’s Name Class Date Descartes’ two proofs of God’s existence. Descartes uses the proof ‘Meditation III’ to explain God’s existence. The proof is given via reasoning‚ which begins by describing how he comes to such a conclusion. Descartes does this by mentally closing himself from the general public‚ ignoring hearing‚ sight‚ and the remaining of his senses as he deeply looks and depends upon himself. This state gives him the opportunity of making an introspective look at the existence

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    that made them very famous. Rene Descartes and John Locke were two philosophers that had the same idea‚ but different views of it. Descartes was a rationalist‚ which are people that argue that only reason can separate reality from illusion and give meaning to experience. The idea that eliminates reasoning can produce certain truths about reality and those important truths can be discovered without observations‚ experiment‚ or experience. Locke on the other hand was an empiricist. An empiricist believes

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    Descartes and Hume are two very famous philosophers who had very distinct and competing beliefs about God. Descartes was a rationalist and Hume was an empiricist‚ therefore both had different restrictions on our ability to have knowledge on God. Rationalist claim that our knowledge is gained independently of sense experience. Empiricists claim that sense experience is the source of all our concepts and knowledge. In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy‚ Descartes attempts to prove that there

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    Rene Descartes the Father of Modern Philosophy René Descartes is generally considered the father of modern philosophy. He was the first major figure in the philosophical movement known as rationalism‚ a method of understanding the world based on the use of reason as the means to attain knowledge (Palmer‚ 2011). Along with empiricism‚ which stresses the use of sense perception rather than pure reason‚ rationalism was one of the main intellectual currents of the Enlightenment‚ a cultural movement

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    Rene Descartes and John Locke attempt to clarify what the self is and how the psyche and body are connected. Rene Descartes is normally viewed as the "father of present day logic" and was brought up in the French privileged and instructed at the Jesuit College of La Fléche. John Locke spent his initial life in the English farmland. He taught rationality and the works of art at Oxford until he earned a restorative degree and swung to pharmaceutical. The boss contrast in the middle of Descartes and

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    Philosophy Ryle V. Descartes Concerning Dualism Dualism – 1. The view that the world consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities‚ such as mind and matter. 2. The view that substances are either material or mental. Materialism - 1. The theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything‚ including thought‚ feeling‚ mind‚ and will‚ can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena. 2. Theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe

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    Cogito ergo sum‚ or in other words I think‚ therefore I am. This phrase was the axiom of Rene Descartes’ meditations on the philosophy of mind. Descartes used this phrase as the basis of his reasoning throughout his meditations where he establishes the idea of Cartesian Dualism. Another major topic that Descartes mentions repeatedly in his meditations is the distrust of the senses and reliance on reason. He also heavily uses his own method of doubting the existence of everything until he can prove

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    Proving the Devine‚ Descartes Second Meditation For years scholars and philosophers have debated if god exists. One of the most prominent minds to attempt to tackle this problem was Rene Descartes. In Meditation III from his book Meditation on First Philosophy Descartes presents an argument for the existence of god. Descartes essentially argues that the idea of god has more reality then he dose and that therefore it couldn’t have originated from him or any other being with the same amount of reality

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    Methods and Meditations on First Philosophy is a discourse by Rene Descartes‚ which largely focuses on the nature of humanity and divinity. This essay is a discussion of this discourse‚ and will summarize‚ explain and object to various parts of his work. The majority of this essay focuses on Descartes Sixth Meditation‚ which includes his argument that corporeal things do exist. 1. There clearly exists a passive faculty of sensing and I use it involuntarily. 2. If there exists a passive faculty

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