René Descartes: The Seeker of Indubitable Truths Kharen Jade Tolentino Reason & Feeling in Modern Philosophy GL PHIL 2620 Prof B. Logan Wednesday‚ October 23‚ 12 Throughout history René Descartes has affected lives of philosophers and their ideas. Not only was René Descartes a well known philosopher he was well known for his application of algebra to geometry which led to the Cartesian geometry. In his Meditations on First Philosophy he attempted to provide philosophical evidence for
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SID: 1429422 Topic: How does Descartes argue that mind and body are distinct? Is he right? “Mind versus Body” In his sixth meditation in the Meditations of First Philosophy‚ Descartes argues that mind and body are distinct and that the mind is distinct from the body in a way that it can exist without the body. I will discuss how Descartes argues that the mind and body are distinct‚ and I will argue as to why he might not be right because this better explains our intuition that sensations and feelings
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to make such a perfect world. Lastly‚ there is the Cosmological argument‚ which Thomas Aquinas used to explain not only the existence of mankind‚ but the existence of our creator. Aquinas used five different Cosmological arguments or theories to justify his beliefs. His five arguments on the existence of God were proven by motion‚ Efficient Causation‚ Necessity‚ Gradation‚ and Governance. Although Aquinas had many arguments for why God exists‚ he also had many questions for people to ponder. One
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Explain how Thomas Aquinas tries to prove Gods Existence (30) St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a Catholic Italian Monk who was regarded to be one of the most important philosophers of the medieval period. Aquinas had adopted the works of Aristotle’s analysis of physical objects‚ his view of place‚ time and motion‚ his proof of the prime mover and his cosmology. He tried to connect the Christian faith together with the Philosophy of Aristotle’s work in his ’Summa Theologica’. Aquinas used 5 arguments
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Aquinas on Conscience For Aquinas‚ conscience is the act of applying our knowledge of good and evil to what we do (or might do). So in order to (naturally) know what is a good action or bad one‚ one needs to understand how things are naturally ordered by God -- primarily what human nature is and what things it needs and deserves. This order which dictates what is good or evil behaviour is called the Natural Law by Aquinas. God can and does also supernaturally reveal what is and is not in accordance
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DESCARTES Descartes is very successful philosophers in 17th century. René Descartes is widely accepted as the father of modern philosophy. He tried to create fundamental philosophy for natural sciences. Descartes mainly focus on his philosophical contributions in the theory of knowledge and his famous work focus on the epistemological project‚ Meditations on First Philosophy. He wants to explain his thought in Meditations on First Philosophy which is as original in philosophical modus as in
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Our society considers the work of Thomas Aquinas as early philosophy. However‚ his arguments and themes in one of his best known body of works‚ Summa Theologiae‚ draw heavily from that of former philosophical giants—ones such as Aristotle or Augustine. On that note‚ one of Augustine major accomplishments included defining mind-body dualism and materialism—an important distinction in philosophy. According to Augustine‚ Materialists believe that the mind exists as a part somewhere in the body; whereas
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Aquinas on Law Aquinas talks about general law. Aquinas has definition of general law: “nothing other than a certain dictate of reason (rationis ordinatio) for the common good‚ made by him who has the care of the community and promulgated." According to Aquinas‚ the law is based on a reason. The purpose of a proper function of the law is to promote common good given out by the person who has a leadership. He talks about four types of law. These laws are eternal law‚ divine law ‚ natural
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Descartes was the first mathematician to use the notation where the letters at the beginning of the alphabet represent data and the letters at the end of the alphabet to represent variables or unknowns. Descartes’ understanding of algebra was deep. He stated that the number of distinct roots of an equation is equal to the degree of the equation. Descartes was willing to consider negative (he called them false roots) and imaginary roots. He developed a rule for determining the number of positive
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René Descartes René Descartes has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy"‚ but he was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century‚ and is sometimes considered the first of the modern school of mathematics. As a young man‚ he found employment for a time as a soldier (essentially as a mercenary in the pay of various forces‚ both Catholic and Protestant). But‚ after a series of dreams or visions‚ and after meeting the Dutch philosopher and scientist Isaac Beeckman
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