The question of our existence in reality have been dwelling for years among philosophers. ... Descartes" divergent thinking left many philosophers questioning how reliable his method actually was. ... Nonetheless, both philosophers were trying to boil down to one thing: to discover an unblemished system to establishing the foundation of true knowledge. ... Ever since there were philosophers, the question whether God exists or not have been the question many philosophers tried to solve. ... In the end, philosophy is only a guide for us scholars to better understand how we think, but it i...

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The enlightenment portrayed through modernity was shaped by a lot of Philosophers, Astronomers, Scientists and many others. ... The theories that these Philosophers produced had a major impact in the western world (and eventually the whole world) as it changed the beliefs of the people as they started to question God's existence and their prior values. ... The enlightenment that Descartes sparked in people led to major society changing Revolutions such as the French Revolution. ...

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This idea is the religious theory of knowledge, which was most popular before the enlightenment period. ... John Locke, a renowned English philosopher, rejected the religious theory, because he said that if knowledge comes from God and God loves all of his children equally then we should all have roughly the same amount of knowledge. ... Another prodigious philosopher is Rene Descartes, who objects the realist theory. ... Some philosophers say we can distinguish between reality and dreams because reality happens in sequence and dreams are disordered and skip around. ... This example causes ph...

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There are many different ideas about what death actually is and what, if anything occurs thereafter. religions in general tend to propose some form of afterlife. there are, in contrast, philosophers and scientists who propose that there is nothing beyond death. ... The scientists and philosophers who see death as the end of existence, when both the connected mind and body perish, have been classified as materialists. ... For Buddhists, the supreme aim is to obtain enlightenment or nirvana. ...

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