Meditations on First Philosophy

The philosophy of the universe is extraordinary. To understand the nature, it requires countless knowledge and studies. What we see in nature are created by the supernatural forces, such as the natural disasters, and/or planned by humans, such as the gardens. The advantage of art is that we can imitate the naturalistic form of nature and expand our creativity to compose an ideal imagery. The two artworks, The Great Day of His Wrath and Ryoanji Zen Garden of Contemplation, exemplify the nature of…

René Descartes, the famous French philosopher and brilliant 17th century Scholar is credited worldwide as the founder of modern western philosophy for his works in the fields of Ontology – a branch of metaphysics regarding the ‘nature of being’- and Epistemology – the study of knowledge. What set him apart from the ancient philosophers was his avoidance of the scholastic traditions to write only in Latin (the language that only highly educated people were trained in) and instead wrote in French…

figures in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and philosophy. They were some of the first modern thinkers who looked at the world and said that the laws of nature are indeed mathematical. One of Galileo’s goals was to take the studies of science and separate them from the ideologies of philosophy. Studying philosophy and mathematics Galileo was able to gain a clear understand of what separates the mathematics from the ideas of philosophy. Here he learned about the teachings…

Descartes fifth Meditation presents the Ontological Argument for God’s Existence. Though many people find Descartes Ontological Argument for God’s Existence to be an unpersuasive and weak argument, I find it is a very strong argument that provides a strong foundation and argument for God’s existence. In this paper I plan to elaborate upon Descartes fifth meditation and slightly over the first and third. After this I will then explain its strong points and weaknesses. I believe Descartes…

| |Lecturer: |Jim Mawby | |Subject: |Philosophy | |Date: |7 Feb 2010 | Explain and assess one or more Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God Descartes applies the ‘Cogito ergo sum’ (‘I think therefore I am’) argument from the second meditation to prove another foundational truth, which is the existence of God. He uses his personal Christian belief and…

According to their viewpoint, yoga was intended to move between the layers of these three bodies. From the start of your first yoga class, you begin to integrate the mind, body and breath. With practice, you can go beyond the basic limitations of your physical form to unlock the true potential of yoga. What Is Yoga? The word yoga is from a Sanskrit word, yuj, that means…

Section 1: Leadership Philosophy and Career Vision and Values I think the Leadership Philosophy include two main problems. The first is the relationship between organization and individual. The second is the influence of environment. Any leadership activities through the organization. The role of the leader is to lead the employees doing activities. So as to achieve some purpose. The leader 's organization could make the staff and leaders ' relations more closely. For example, in our class.…

Descartes aimed to rebuild knowledge and philosophy. The first and primary principle of his methodology was “never accept anything as true that I did not plainly know to be such (Discourse 19).” He believed that a large number of opinions, beliefs, and knowledge of human beings were false, but he could not justify which ones were true or which ones were false because all of knowledge are interacted and correlated with each other. Why are not existed beliefs, opinion, or knowledge true? All of…

effectively defend Leibniz against Descartes because in his writings, Meditations on First Philosophy , Descartes rejects final causes. First, I will explain what the connection between final causes and efficient causes is and how Leibniz believed it was ignorant of people to study one and judge the other and vice versa. Then I will explain how Descartes rejection of final causation is what created weakness in his argument in meditation 4 . Finally, I will discuss how Leibniz believed that final…

Buddhism: Religion or Philosophy? To properly answer this question we first need to define the difference between religion and philosophy because while religion and philosophy deal with many of the same ideas they are different. Religion revolves around commitment, faith, worship, and the supernatural, whereas philosophy revolves around criticism, doubt, and the nature of reality, the mind and conduct. Some definitions of “religion” are a belief in and the worship of Gods; any system of belief…