Metaphysics

Descartes went on to mention the three hypothesis that he feels are ways to doubt his beliefs in the first meditation but as he goes on to the second meditation, he comes up with a belief that cannot be doubted. As he concluded his first meditation, he came up with his strongest hypothesis and that dealt with evil demons deceiving him but with this new belief that cannot be doubted, he feels that he must exist to even be led on towards deception from that evil figure. Because he was doubting his…

Based on Descartes, there are two types of admiration: “”sudden surprise,” i.e., an unexpected feeling caused by the perception of some new or unknown object; on the other hand, it can mean “veneration” or “regard” with respect to an unusual, rare, and extraordinary object.” While first meaning comes and goes almost at the same time, the second type can become “constant and durable.” Aristotle described admiration as wonder and said that “[it] is the beginning of the philosophical inquiry…

With Eliade, I felt his purpose of the reading was to convey that myths were models of behavior that ensured that the religious man remained in touch with the sacred reality. He quotes, "What we find as soon as we place ourselves in perspective of religious man of the ordeal societies is that the world exists because it was created by the gods, and that the existence of the world itself 'means' something, 'want to say' something and the world is neither mute nor opaque, that it is not an inert…

The goal of this paper is that of discussing the interconnections between some elements of Schelling’s Berlin lectures on mythology and revelation. In particular, I want to focus on Schelling’s reading of monotheism as exposed over the course of the first six lectures of the series concerning mythology. In Schelling’s own words, monotheism is ‹‹the first presupposition of the theogonical process››, and is ‹‹posited together with human essence itself››. Moreover, this concept ‹‹contains the law…

This writing consists of 33 propositions, the Ethics begins with definitions (158), axioms (159) and then Spinoza begins to discuss the propositions. I noticed that the statements for each proposition becomes longer as the list goes on. The first three propositions reference back to the definitions to attempt to prove that the point that is being made is true (159). However, as Spinoza continues to discuss each proposition by referring back to the definitions as well as the previous propositions…

The Upanishad’s Guidance to Transcendence Philosophers of the past and present quarrel over the ways in which the soul becomes known, or if there even is one. Ideas drift around about the methods to seek the soul and how individuals realize they contain a soul. The Upanishads created an extensive and specific guide of how to seek the soul. This paper will detail further on how the Upanishads directs followers on spiritual experiences to seek the self. Truth signifies the acceptance of the…

In Decartes’ meditations 1 & 2, the meditator deliberates his thoughts. Descartes reflects about where his views have come from and if the roots of these views are dependable or if they have been all based on untruthful notions. With this uncertainty clouding his vision, the meditator tries to build his thoughts from the ground up. In meditation 1 Descartes is reflecting on all things that can be named into uncertainty or doubt. He reflects on all his opinions and concludes that they all can be…

“Men is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determine notwithstanding, he believes, he has free will” by George Christoph Lichtenberg. This quote shows how you decide your own destiny and that you are the only person who chooses what you want to do. I believe free will is something a person should be able to enjoy because you are the one who is able to make your own decision of what you desire of and also what you want your life to be like.…

Descartes isn’t worried that we have absolute rule over all animals, because he agrees that some animals are stronger than us and that they also have the ability of being cunning and deceiving the most clever, aware, artful human being. The most one can say that though animals do not perform actions that show us that they have any sense of thought or reason and that they think knowing that they are physically close to us, it may conclude that there is some sort of thought stuck to our organs…

As Stated before Hume believes that all there is in the mind is sense data. This also relates to personal identity. Ask yourself what makes you, you? Once you have listed a long line of physical and emotional/ mental traits think about why those are what they are. You would explain genetics and blame or thank your parents for the physical traits. But your emotional thoughts and identity are a whole different story. Philosophers with Hume’s belief of only sense data existing in the mind is based…