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 states that an essential property of a perfect being is existence, or that the ...

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Regardless of the agreed upon definition of time, the philosophy involved in the comprehension of time truly does weigh heavily on the human psyche. ... It is this view that ties religious philosophies to those of time. ... The best definition of time is that it is a "continuum that lacks spatial dimensions" ("time"). This definition is precise, but still vague, and one must come to the realization that it is the possible explanations - the theories - that make time such an interesting topic. ... Time has many possible definitions, as it has numerous effects on human life. ...

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With this persisting question of the existence of a divine being many theories and philosophies have come and gone through the layman and intellect groups of thought. Of those philosophies, there are three that are commonly drawn on today. ... (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Another fallacy is that Anselm holds that the greatest thing conceived is God. ... The Cosmology argument seems to satisfy both logic and understanding giving it the superior stance over the Teleology and Ontological philosophies. ... God, by definition, is a necessary being. 7. ...

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With this definition the objection of evil existing arises. ... According to the definition, if god is all good he would not want bad things (evil) to happen. ... Philosophy 1106 R. 10 Final Essay Topic: Thomas Aquinas ...

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Materialism In Western civilization, materialism is the oldest philosophical tradition. It reached its full classical form in the atomism of Democritus and Epicurus in the 4th century BCE. Epicurus argued that reality consisted of invisible and indivisible particles of free-falling matter call...

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This, Bergson claims, condemns philosophy to an eternal disagreement between the various schools of thought who adopt differing viewpoints and concepts of a reality. ... Being outside the person in this way I cannot perceive what is essential and unique in the person, for what constitutes the person, what is simply his or her self, is internal by definition and can only be experienced by me if I were to be able and momentarily identify myself with the person. ...

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