Rene Descartes Essays

If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he […]

During the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes established and promoted their ain signifiers of scientific enquiry and natural doctrine. Francis Bacon promoted the usage of inductive research with the end of profiting world. and Rene Descartes promoted the usage of mathematics in scientific apprehension. Both Bacon and Descartes […]

In the following essay I will be looking at both sides of the debate of whether neuroscience replaced psychology in explaining behavior. To begin with we must firstly understand what exactly neuroscience is and what it entails. It is generally defined as the study of how the nervous system develops, its structure and the functions […]

St. Thomas Aquinas was an Italian philosopher of the mid-thirteenth century. He was sometimes referred to as the “Angelic Doctor”; he was a Dominican friar and believed to be the greatest medieval philosopher. One of his most famous works was the ‘Summa Theologica`, Which was sadly only half completed due to a religious experience, involving […]

‘The nature of the human mind, and how it is known better than the body’1 is the basis for Descartes argument “The Cogito” in his second of his Meditations. This argument stems from Descartes being left in the grips of doubt at the end Meditation One, where he calls all knowledge into question and that […]

To assess whether any argument is sound it is necessary to spend a little time looking at what makes any argument sound. A philosophically sound argument is one constructed from a set of true premises which move towards a logical conclusion. The atheist can legitimately reach different conclusions from the theist but this essay will […]

Rene Descartes argues that sense perception is untrustworthy and not reliable enough to determine what is true and real. He gives us a number of arguments and examples to show how easy it is to deceive our senses. They are not a reliable authority to distinguish between right or wrong thus we need to use […]

When Descartes reaches his third meditation he has already established his own existence, through the ‘Cogito’, and the fact that all his thought processes occur under a unity of consciousness which he names the ‘Res Cogitans’. However, he has not, as yet been able to prove the existence of things external to him, all he […]

To understand the distinction that many philosophers make between body and soul, it is foremost important to define what exactly they both are. Both segments of the being can be seen to exhibit specific characteristics that make them identifiable as what we call ‘body’ and ‘soul’. The majority of the world population would define ‘body’ […]

Descartes’ starting point was simple: Empiricism is unreliable because our senses may misinform us. All beliefs or opinions based on sensory data may be mistaken. Instead of looking outward, we should look inward. However, even reason itself (if we allow for the possibility of a cosmic Deceiving Demon), may lead us astray. Thus the first […]

Anthropology attempts to understand the question “what does it mean to be human? ” The Bororo people of South America create meaning for their individuality as humans by associating each clan with a specific totem, one being a red-breasted parrot. A Bororo male’s declaration that “I am a red-breasted parrot” is essentially different than a […]

Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont, Auvergne, France. He was the third child of Etienne Pascal. He was the only male child. Blaise’s mother passed away when he was three years old. After his mother’s death, the family packed their bags up and moved to Paris. Blaise’s father, Etienne […]

While seeking for Truth. with a capital ‘T’ . conveying three giants like St. Thomas Aquinas. Descartes and William Wordsworth. under a individual roof. is a mammoth undertaking that requires great attention and attending. Aquinas can be said to be a adult male who is an unfastened minded Catholic. really tolerant and humanist mind who […]

The statement “you know that you are reading this book,” has to be based on the premise that we can actually know anything as all. That, in turn, leads to questioning where we get our knowledge from in the first place. Furthermore, even if one was to find an answer, could it be proven sufficiently […]

Rene 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 […]

The great Aristotle once taught that “all men desire to know”. Sometime later, the learned Rene Descartes would respond in saying: “I have always had an extreme desire to learn how to distinguish the true from the false” (cited in Lavine, 1982, p. 92). Herein one needs to appreciate the great contribution of Descartes to […]

In the scholarly world there are great men and women that construct this world. In this regard therefore Rene Descartes is amongst those worth to be appreciated in the academic arena today because of his scholarly contributions. He was born on 31st March, 1596 at La Haye in France (1) by Jeanne Brochard his mother […]

I research on animals. I study the intimate chemical and electrical processes that are the brain’s mechanisms for storing information, for learning and memory. To discover those mechanisms, I analyse the cellular changes that occur when young chicks learn and remember simple tasks. An anti-vivisectionist once asked me whether my research didn’t make me feel […]

Mind, body and God have always caused the major philosophical debates. Philosophers worked out various theories about their connection and combinations of them. This paper’s aim is to study the arguments of Descartes and Berkeley about God existence. We are going to stop at the main proofs, their consequences and the main problems connected to […]

The famous philosopher, Rene Descartes (1596-1650), has proposed two important arguments in the field of philosophy and logic, particularly the (1) argument of mistaken sensorium, and (2) the evil demon argument. Rene Descartes is undoubtedly one pf the great contributors in the field of skeptical philosophy wherein he questions the reality of experience and the […]

The book of Rene Descartes (1641) entitled, Meditations on First Philosophy, argues that human being’s existence is composed primarily of two components, which are mind and body-formally being known as the theory of Dualism. Descartes has represented the human existence through his six forms of meditations that negates absolute belief on uncertain things and further […]

The start of the Scientific Revolution heralded many changes concerning different viewpoints on knowledge. The breakaway from the medieval ages and the gradual rediscovery of classical ideas from the Renaissance period gave rise to the analytical systems of thought regarding individual existence, the philosophy of the mind, and eventually, through rationalism, the formation of the […]