Joseph Cinqué

Part One: Area of Philosophy In the event of the terrible accident on Hooper avenue, the doctors have done medical magic to save the person who was killed by the cement truck by transplanting their brain into the person of the opposite gender who had a stroke upon witnessing this event. While the mere act of even doing this type of transplant would fall under the philosophy branch of ethics, what we are talking about today my friends is what the result of this transplant and how would this…

How should the Mind/Body Problem be solved? Introduction The mind and body problem has been around for many years and since then many solutions to the problem have been offered, yet none have been widely accepted. The mind and body seem to be two very different substances, however, the question poses. How do they interact? How can a mind effect the body if it’s a different entity and how can the body effect the mind? Although this problem may appear simple, it is yet to have a satisfactory…

Night Cafe Who was Vincent Van Gogh? And why the night cafe is one of his masterpiece and most famous painting? In the Modernist world there were so many fabulous and famous paintings but in this essay I want to focus in Vincent Gogh.Vincent Gogh was born on March 30 of 1853 in Netherland. He studied paintings while living in Paris in 1886. He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far reaching influence on 20th-century art. He never married he declared his love to Eugénie Loyer, but she reject…

In Meditations of First Philosophy, Descartes explains philosophical meditations written over six days. The Second Meditation concerns the nature of the human mind. Descartes argues that the human mind is better known than the body. A major claim of his is his most famous quote “I think, therefore I am,” meaning a thinking thing, such as himself, can exist. In this essay, I will prove that Descartes’ argument in the Second Meditation for his existence as a thinking thing is convincing. First, I…

The Queerness in Children’s Literature The children 's literature were made and published for all children to encourage the love of reading. Parents are engaged in reading children books and literatures to their children to show their feelings about how much they adore their children. According to children 's literature, they are mostly symbolized as “youth”, “innocence” and “purity”. However, throughout this event, there is a diversity that was hidden behind the children’s literature. The…

The second meditation continues Descartes search for one main concern of how he cannot be certain of anything. He has reached the conclusion of a clearer understanding of the physical world and how it comes from the use of judgement and reason, as opposed to relying solely on what ‘appears to be the case’ through perception of the senses and use of the imagination. Ultimately, then, I think the true nature of things in the external world are not revealed fully. How do I really know what is for…

INTRODUCTION: The following are argument analysis of arguments that mainly comprises the “Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous” and “Treatise concerning the principle of Human Knowledge” both written by George Berkley , who is an Irish philosopher and coined the philosophical concept called “immaterialism” which denies that materials exist in the world and are the fundamental building blocks of reality , indeed it says that it is the ideas which really exist in the minds of the…

Dualism and Logical Behaviorism Each and every day, people connect with the world through various mental and physical involvements. Physical experiences are bodily actions, which include breathing, consuming, drinking, sleeping, talking, and walking to name a few. Mental experiences are actions of the mind, which include numerous emotions, needing, determining, questioning, recalling and the list keeps going. For years, philosophers have debated the understanding of these feelings and…

The Renaissance was probably one of the most known epochs in human history. But what most don’t know about is the Baroque Era and the Enlightenment Era. There were a lot of events that occurred during this time period that make it slightly different than the Renaissance, and a lot of it had to do with social aspects. One of the most controversial events that was happening was the Thirty Years’ War. According to the textbook, it took place “from 1618 to 1648, a series of wars raged throughout…

Descartes: Proofs for God existence and the nature of human’s mistakes Rene Descartes, a famous French philosophy, was known as “the Father of modern philosophy”. With his formidable and broad knowledge, Descartes fostered his desire to seek for only true beliefs that were certain and indubitably true. In his work, the Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes reiterated his intellectual process of doubting and questioning all the essences of corporeal and intangible…