"Junk yields a basic formula of "evil" virus: *The Algebra of Need*. The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. ... There is a large variety of recreational drugs available today and it is evident that they do not all have only detrimental effects. ... It is evident in his words that he realizes the immoral outcomes of using opiates and the "sickness" which it produces. ... The problem lies in the fact that the realization of this true desire might arise only after seeing the consequences or only in inchoate form...

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This leads us to wonder about the relationship between the immaterial mind and material body, commonly known in philosophy as the mind/body problem. ... With this in mind, Descartes deduces that the reliability of mathematics can no longer be doubted because God guarantees the truth of all self-evident ideas, but ones that can be calculated through mathematical physics. ... This question is actually part of a much larger area of debate that is known as the 'problem of evil'. This 'problem of evil' stems from the question of why God or a perfect being would create a unive...

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Prior to examining Descartes' assertion that he is thinking, the problem of what Descartes means by thinking should be answered. ... Moreover, Descartes does not deduce existence from thought by means of a syllogism but recognizes it as something self-evident from the inherent recesses of the mind. His point is that the conclusion he has arrived at is based on what is self-evident from what he has perceived in himself. ... In terms of the aforesaid claim, Descartes' claim that his conclusions are based on self-evident intuition is coherent with his method of doubt. However, in terms ...

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One of the main rationalist is Rene Descartes who was a very influential philosopher who had a problem of knowledge and how to justify it. ... Descartes proceeds to talk about an evil genius/demon deceiving the senses and manipulating all the experiences (Descartes p.200). ... God is more powerful than an evil demon that may try to deceive my senses, however, since He created humans, the senses are not being manipulated. ... It is evident, that all children doesnt have any thought of the innate ideas (Locke p.207) .With this statement, it targets the main idea of Descartes statement, dismissin...

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More than once during William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the title character reflects upon his own character and ponders the problem that he, of all people, is a coward. ... He approaches his problems by meditating on them and by attempting to reason them out. ... "Conscience unites reason, moral obligation, and fear in ways which would have seemed self-evident to an audience in 1600 .Going well beyond a guilty feeling or revelation of guilt, it points forward as well as backward in time, and provides guidance to action" (Frye 179). Professor Roland Frye's conclusions support the argum...

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 'The internal world on the outside. The genesis of violence and aggression.' (First slide) No horror you can imagine has not already been done by someone to somebody else. Similarly there is no horror you could perform that has not been enacted in imagination or fantasy by somebody. Man is a dangerous animal. ...

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