Existence of God

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave he argues that there exists a different, immaterial, and intelligible reality. He places this reality above ours and says that we must escape our shackles, like the people in the cave, and find that better reality. Apart from this, he also declares that it is not enough to find the new reality, those who reach it must go back and liberate the other shackled prisoners. This whole process of finding more knowledge is not easy or enjoyable at first. Plato represents…

In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes questions the trustworthiness of his beliefs, doubting what he believes as true. He reflects on the falsehoods he believed during his lifetime and motions to remove those foundations in order to build a new foreground of knowledge. Descartes found a way to build a new foundation for necessary truths (innate ideas that cannot be false) by reconstructing the ideas he previously known. Instead of initially throwing out everything he previously knew,…

In this essay, I will present Newton and Descartes’ argument concerning the idea of space. Rene Descartes’ argument, is that space is merely an extension of bodies in a plenum. This essay will outline how he holds the idea of three-dimensional spatial extensions and as consequence, how it affected his scientific groundwork. This essay will also outline Newton’s rebuttal to Descartes claim. Newton endorses the absolutist notion that space is separate from matter and time, and is immovable. Both…

T David Auburn’s play Proof is a very important play in many respects. While it is essentially a human drama that deals with conflict, doubt, lack of trust, lack of self-belief, and how these things affect relationships, it also highlights some vital themes such as mathematics, genius and mental illness, in a way that no other play has done. Examining the primary theme of mathematics and mathematics as a metaphor for life, by sheer action of using the rarefied field of mathematics as a…

chance of disputing her sister Melissa in the fact that souls do exist by denoting to Plato’s defense of souls existing to aid in her defending her stance on the dispute. In the dialogues, Plato uses the defense to justify Socrates’ beliefs in the existence of the soul. By referring back to the readings that justify the soul, Melinda would seem to be able to convince her sister to agree with her. Melinda could argue that all things have an opposite, including the soul. (Grube, 2002) Melissa…

claim that, 'all that is real and substantial is banished out of the world. 'He first responds to this by saying, “...instead thereof a chimerical scheme of ideas takes place.” What he is saying here is that idealism does not just banish all out of existence, instead, it replaces all that exists with ideas of those particular things in the outside world. Berkeley writes, “all things that exist, exist only in the mind, that is, they are purely notional...we are not deprived of anyone thing in…

Aristotle’s Categories: An Analysis The Categories is a framework of Aristotle’s outlook in philosophy. It is the prologue to Aristotle’s works and sets the tone towards his philosophy. The Categories centres on the nature of a being—what it means to be a being. The idea that Aristotle is trying to present in chapter two is dividing the forms of speech in order to make the basic distinctions of them. In chapter two of the text, Aristotle identifies the four types of being. They are as followed:…

If the world you lived in wasn’t real, how would you know? In this paper, I will be discussing Descartes’s line of reasoning while attempt to prove the uncertainty of many ordinary beliefs using his universal or Cartesian doubt, in Descartes’s book Meditations on First Philosophy. Dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy”, Descartes was a philosopher in Sweden who taught others philosophy, and was also a huge advocate for mathematics, specifically geometry. He doubts everything that his senses…

What is the point of watching “Reality TV” when it’s not even considered reality? Why do several of us buy into the idea that reality TV resembles reality in any way, shape or form? There are countless questions about reality TV that we might never know the answer to. The producers of reality Tv shows, practically have us wrapped around their finger, making us believe whatever we hear and notice. Utmost people are clueless about what is real and what isn’ t, this is just the way we think.…

A pseudoscience an idea that is an idea that is mistaken for being true or scientific fact. Because it cannot be explained does not mean that it is the supernatural. A pseudoscience topic that should be looked into ghosts and the idea of a life after we are dead. This is such a controversial topic that has left people confused for many centuries, but with the scientific advancements that we have today it’s safe to say there is no such thing. The idea of ghost has been very popular because there…