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22.18656 Descartes Reality and Dreaming: Assessing the Nature or Perception and Affirmation.
This paper explores Descartes' dream argument in order to determine the differences between waking and dreaming cognition and how Descartes' viewed the problem of distinction therein.
Pages: 6
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23.19699 Descartes.
Descartes and his views on philosophy can be found in the two sources. He writes about opinions and truth in the first article. The second article is about his beliefs about God, soul and body.
Pages: 2
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24.16536 A Philosophical Analysis of Thought and Innate Perception in the Philosophy of Renee Descartes and John Locke
This paper will discuss the nature of innate thought along the lines of Cartesian philosophy in the mind of Rene Descartes. By understanding his constructions on pure thought, we can see how Locke refutes his ideas of innate traits of reasoning, especially in knowing God. By using Descartes own method of Cartesian aspects of reasonong, Locke deduces Descartes theories into over-generalized subjectivity.
Pages: 5
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25.20556 The Human, the Senses, and God: Examining a Few Ideas in Descartes? Meditations on First Philosophy
This 6-page undergraduate paper examines specific paragraphs from the first four meditations in Descartes? Meditations on First Philosophy. This paper examines these specific paragraphs in order to answer questions such as ?What is the main idea(s) (argument(s)) of the paragraph? How does Descartes argue this idea(s)? What does initiate the arguing idea(s) in the paragraph? What is the purpose, or consequences, or conclusions of this idea(s) (argument(s))?? for each paragraph examined. This paper finds that in the first meditation, the Meditator compares disciplines such as medicine and mathematics, in order to show that ways of knowing which rely on the senses are fallible. In the second meditation, the Meditator expands on this concept by using the example of wax melting to suggest that we know with the intellect, and cannot rely on our senses for knowledge. In the third meditation, the Meditator debates the existence of God, concluding that God is perfect, and thus could not have been created merely in the human imagination. In the fourth meditation, the Meditator considers the ways in which the limited intellect and unlimited will produce mistakes in human behaviour and thought. In conclusion, this paper finds that examining specific parts of the first four meditations allows one to see Descartes? repeated refutation of Aristotelian concepts as well as his frequent reiteration of God?s perfection, individuals? limitations, and the necessary doubt which surrounds knowledge.
26.21163 Utilizing Dualism to Differentiate Between Human Consciousness and Non-Human or Computer Thinking
In a world where computers have become a part of everyday life, and advance in complexity and capability daily, one may begin to question the difference between human consciousness and computer or non-human thinking. The question becomes, is there truly any differences, or is the human mind simply a very advanced computer? By utilizing René Descartes interactions dualism theory, one can better understand that human and non-human thinking are very different, and with dualism in mind, can never be the same.
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27.21166 Descartes Dreaming Argument
Is this reality or is this a dream? Isn?t this a fairly straightforward question? Doesn?t one simply know when they?re sleeping? According to René Descartes, perhaps not. Descartes? dreaming argument can be used to question one?s reality, and makes the question, ?Are you sleeping right now?? not as foolish as it first sounds. By exploring this argument, the reader may just end up questioning his or her own perceived reality.