" (The Philosophical Writings of Descartes). ... "I believe he [Descartes] will allow a very manifest difference between dreaming of being in the Fire, and being actually in it.... During a study in 1998, conducted by the Medical Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada titled, the Nature and Prevalence of Pain in Dreams, one hundred and eighty-five participants completed a series of questions while logging their dreams for two consecutive weeks and shocking results were brought to attention. ... While John Locke's assertion i...

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Descartes challenges the idea of certainty. Descartes presents the idea of an Evil Genius. ... Descartes Vs. ... Hume believed that the study of man was ultimately most important because all other sciences trace back to man. ... Hume simply assesses the question, if we have a soul then from what impression do we take it from and call that me? ...

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Descartes and his meditations are in search of the answer to this question and he takes on a rational and skeptical mindset to find the answers. ... Sounds almost identical to Descartes but he puts his thumb-print on the idea as he introduces the idea of "tabula rasa". ... He is a little less extreme than Descartes. ... The bundle theory makes little sense because if you could study two people that do that same exact thing and are raised the same, they would think similarly but still have different thoughts and operate in their own way. ... William James, the American psychologist and phil...

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Descartes analyzed the realist theory with this idea. ... So Descartes says there is no way to distinguish wakefulness from sleep. ... There was a study done at the Montreal Neurological Institute on a 14-year-old girl who had brain surgery and was conscious the whole time. ... This example causes philosophers to question whether or not we are actually alive. ... As a student, I can fully support this idea because I have taken a lot of multiple choice tests in which I guessed on a question and had a chance of getting it correct, even if I didn't actually know what the question was asking....

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Descartes was disappointed with traditional philosophers and with limitation of theology. ... Descartes methodology was a major influence in the transition from medieval science and philosophy to the modern era. ... Descartes is also credited as being the founder of geometry and Cartesian coordinates. ... Modern maps use the grid system that can be traced back to Descartes. ... His humanist perspective was put so well in rhyme making mankind pursue the true knowledge of God. " Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is man-. 6 Society is still trying to under...

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And each thinker considering this question has own attitude towards it. ... Hobbes was also very influenced by the progress, new openness, scientific methods, inventions, and was talking about the necessity of the science, which should study politics. ... He asserted that if people would study politics they would be able to affect on the situation and provide security the citizens. Besides, Hobbes was influenced by another great thinker - Rene Descartes, who asserted that animal is a difficult machine. ...

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Nevertheless, he kept studying in his own way and read a lot, including the great works of Descartes and Hobbes. The writings of Descartes had awakened in him the interest in philosophy. ... It stimulated by the intellectual life of the Dutch, he made time to complete his studies. ... His first book (Essay Concerning Human Understanding) concerned arguing with Plato, Descartes and other scholars citing that there are no original ideas or principles. ... But, unlike Hobbes, he did experience and study the positive and beautiful side of humans as well. ...

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