History is, of course necessary to any understanding of philosophy: how it came about, what people did with it. ... Rather, philosophy should be integrated with the rest of the sciences through the method of rational judgment. Rather than sailing behind, or next to but away from, the rest of the sciences, philosophy should be the flagship of the group. ... Descartes was the first to bring philosophy to its "renaissance." ... Descartes" philosophy was an attempt to create a genuine foundation upon which furthers scientific development would be established. ...

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This is the philosophy of pragmatism (Stickney). A prominent figure within this sphere in philosophy is John Dewey, an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (John Dewey). As a philosopher, Dewey's beliefs as a pragmatist are similar to that of Immanuel Kant's, a major figure in modern philosophy. Here, Kant's philosophy is identical to Dewey's when looking at the extent of how much we know about anything as well as the purpose of knowledge. ... In closing, I believe that Kant and Dewey's philosophy have much in common, aside from a few interpreta...

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Finally, after traveling all over Europe, Descartes decided to end his travels and reside in Holland in 1628 where he began to write his three famous books, Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy where his passion for philosophy and mathematics could shine. In my term paper, I will be focusing on specific passages from Meditations on First Philosophy, which was written in 1641. Meditations on First Philosophy is a discussion of metaphysics, or what is real. ... This leads us to wonder about the relationship between the immaterial mind and mater...

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His philosophy is made up of objectives and replies in which he puts forward a statement to doubt everything but the problem was the method of doubt in its entirety and its accuracy. ... As Descartes philosophy is famous throughout the world is thus reasonable that his assumptions and statements were/are heavily criticised by past and present philosophers in order to gain a higher understanding of the topic. Descartes philosophy brought into context how first principles should be rejected and new ones to be focused upon. The first objection towards Descartes philosophy is the reason why a...

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On David Hume and Rene Descartes "There are more things in heaven and Earth than dreamt of in your philosophy" (Shakespeare, 211). ... It suggests that in our modern philosophy we have not even began to scratch the surface of what causes the nature of things around us. Our philosophy is centered on the idea of cause and effect or interaction with the external world or for some philosophers being aware of certain and necessary truths. ... He was simply trying to demonstrate that causation is not something that is explicitly explainable in our philosophy. ... That is not ours to know, it is ...

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A good place to start on the road to enlightenment is with the study of philosophy. ... Perhaps instead of "the love of wisdom," philosophy should be called "the love and application of wisdom," for this is the true purpose of philosophy and this is what is required of every man to lead a good life free from the fetters of dependence. ...

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Throughout Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, the narrator, or Meditator, isolates himself in order to think clearly and develop a new perception on many concepts like the mind, body, and existence of God. ... Throughout the First Meditation in Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes presents and details several reasons to doubt all of his beliefs. ... By the end of the First Meditation in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, The Mediator comes to doubt most everything he has previously believed by analyzing his sense perception and his epistemological processes....

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Either (1) Kant is either claiming that the totality of experience is a priori and therefore he is creating another idealistic philosophy, or (2) experience itself is impossible. ... If there is a way in which the a priori concepts of the understanding and empirical intuitions can meet each other in the mind, Kant's transcendental philosophy will be validated. ...

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Can Descartes be certain that he is thinking? How? Can he be certain that he exists? How? (And who is he?) Descartes" statement "I think therefore I exist" raises questions about the meaning of thought, the meaning of existence but most fundamentally, in what sense he can be certain. The difficu...

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Locke is considered to be the founder of British empiricism, while Descartes is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. ... Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a "science of abstractions." ...

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