Philosophy

Before we are able to consider whether or not it is an advantage of Descartes…

To have free will is to have at least two choices fully open to us…

Descartes believes he has defeated scepticism by acknowledging the idea that there clearly and distinctly…

The extract from Plato’s the Republic is a dialogue taken from the VII, The simile…

Throughout life one will make thousands of choices: fight or flee, work or sleep, salad…

When writing the Meditations, Descartes’ main objective was to build the foundations of philosophy, a…

The Yup’ik cosmology can be seen from their acts within rituals and the explanations they…

Immortality as an existence after death. Is the existence afterward physical or non-physical? Immortality of…

When you are in a given situation in which you need to make moral judgment,…

This essay aims to characterize the philosophical question of the mind/body problem. In this essay…

I will be comparing meanings of Natural law in accordance to two thinkers. I have…

(1) Philosophers as Teachers and Preachers The functions of a philosopher, under the Empire, were…

‘Morality is the refuge of the weak’ is an assertion fraught with ambiguity; there are…

1) ‘The history of moral philosophy since the 17th century recapitulates the ancient debate between…

Roderick Nash’s book titled The Rights of Nature and Ernest Partridge’s book titled Responsibilities of…

Giving reference to the kinds of phenomena that each type of consciousness theory can be…

Rene Descartes argues that sense perception is untrustworthy and not reliable enough to determine what…

The viability of the Cartesian conception of mind has over time been significantly reduced through…

It was Descartes’ aim to show how everything within the natural and unnatural world concurred…

He knows that he could not disprove all of his beliefs because that may be…