- According to Descartes, we justify many of our opinions with information collected through our senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. ... The prime example of machine mentioned is a computer, but these are others, such as Morpheus's ship, weapons, and so on. The prime example of the second category is my body or yours, and my brain or yours. Examples of the third category are such thing as the Earth, buildings, and electric signals. The prime example of the third main category of the real-the composite of mind and body-is a human being, Morpheus refers to this category indi...

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As such, philosophy provides one with no definite answer on any one aspect of human knowledge 1. ... This is the type of Dualism most famously defended by Descartes, and it is compatible with most theologies which claim that immortal souls occupy an independent "realm" of existence distinct from that of the physical world 6. Almost 2000 years after Plato and Pythagoras reasoned that the human mind or soul could not be identified with the physical body, René Descartes reinforced this concept and gave it a name, dualism. ... He also identified the mind with concepts such as self-awareness...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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