1/3/09 Rene Descartes Often credited with being called “The Father of Modern Philosophy”‚ this title is supported by his contributions to philosophy and mathematics. The coordinate system‚ used today‚ is accredited to him along with many other mathematical contributions. He also had many contributions to philosophy‚ including his most famous‚ Meditations on First Philosophy. Every time you graph an equation on a Cartesian coordinate system‚ you are using the work of Rene Descartes. Born in La
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Descartes and Plato Explain both of descartes Arguments for the existence of God Descartes proof of God’s existence comes from his third meditation and is based on three ideas. He argues that innate idea exists within us‚ the fictitious or invented ideas are a result of our own imagination and adventitious ideas result from our experiences in the world. Descartes said‚ the idea of God is innate and cannot be invented. Descartes presents some arguments that lead to his conclusion. The first
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Memory View is an idea put forward by John Locke suggesting‚ “Personal Identity is constituted by (genuine) memory-relations” proposing the view that personal identity consists over time in relations of our memory. In relation to Gretchen’s Challenge this means that Gretchen will survive so long as future person-stages are linked to her past and present person-stages through links of (genuine) memory‚ in which person-stages are periods of mental activity and/or consciousness . Locke argues that
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associated with rationalism are Descartes‚ Kant‚ and Leibniz. Empiricism believes that some ideas or concepts are independent of experience and that truth must be established by reference to experience alone. Empiricist support the idea of posteriori which means knowledge that comes after experience or dependent on experience. Locke‚ Humes‚ and Berkeley are philosophers
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Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (IV) None of the proposed philosophical theories is exact‚ not even a combination of two or more theories (Sayre‚ 2011). However‚ Descartes has unique way of metaphysical argument concerning existence of God. Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (Part IV) ends surprisingly with a claim of God’s existence‚ which can be deduced from the interrelationship between mind‚ soul and our existence. Descartes began the fourth section by discussing about himself. The reading
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Descartes Divisibility Rene Descartes believes that the mind and body is different things and that the body is dividable but the mind is not dividable. I’m not sure what I believe‚ but I think I believe at least for now that the mind and body is two different things. I will explore why Descartes thinks you can divide a body and why he thinks a mind is not dividable. As well as what Descartes response should be to Armstrong’s criticism. Was Descartes right or not? I think this is all up to the
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argument of God’s existence and Aquinas objection I was in the debate team in high school. And there were times that our team would take the against side of the statement. In his famous work Prologion‚ written in 1077-1078‚ Anselm presents the idea the God exists because God is the greatest thing of all‚ that the idea of thinking of God exists prove its existence. Hundred of years later‚ Thomas Aquinas brings up the account that addresses Anselm’s idea in objection 2 of Question II‚ First Article of
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the greatest philosophers ever. Each man was very respected while they were living but when you have hundreds or thousands of people still talking about you after your death there is something very special to say about that. Socrates and Rene Descartes spent their life looking for the truth. They looked for the perfect answer to every question because both of them wanted the answers no one could have an answer too. Although these men were alive at very different times‚ they had the same ideas
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College Algebra September 28‚ 2013 Essay René Descartes – Discourse on Method “How can I know what is true?“ - this is the main question that René Decartes discusses in Discourse on Method. He talks about the desire he always had to distinguish the true from the false in order to see clearly in his actions. Apart from this‚ he points out several principles that he established in order to confirm his knowledge. To begin with‚ René Descartes central objective is to reach certainty and in this
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Hobbes and the Hypothetical Contract In dealing with the problem with political authority Thomas Hobbes proposes that state’s derive their power from a hypothetical social contract that is made between a government and its citizens. It attempts to solve the problem with political legitimacy and political obligation; the right to rule and the reason citizens obey those in power. Hobbes believes that the only way to get out of a wild and unjust “state of nature” is to collectively give up some of
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