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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