Padmé Amidala

When attempting to solve the problem concerning the immortality of the soul, both Plato and Hume must rely on analogy. Plato, being a rationalist, argues that the soul is immortal and is comparable to a form, for it is invisible and incomposite, unlike material objects. Hume, on the other hand, believes that the soul is mortal and compares souls to perishable objects such as bodies. Although neither analogy can offer any validity, Hume 's argument for the mortality of the soul is far more…

In Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes attempts to reconcile a Christian metaphysics with a new epistemology contrary to the scholastic, Aristotelian worldview. He seeks new foundations that knowledge can be built upon and tries to accomplish this by identifying basic, indubitable axioms to derive more complex truths by. As Descartes had a background in mathematics and geometry, these tenets are proposed alike mathematical truths in that they are self-evidential. He calls these axioms…

Princess Elizabeth questioned the ability of the two substances of Cartesian Dualism to interact, and thereby introduced the problem of causal interaction. She essentially questioned how the mind (immaterial) causally interacts with the body (material), and therefore demanded a description of the mechanisms that give the mind and the body this power . In this paper, I will argue that Princess Elizabeth’s criticism of Cartesian Dualism successfully discredits Descartes’s theory by exposing the…

Suddenly, you can find everywhere in countries like Japan or America, has people who is looking at their cellphone, randomly walking to each direction. In fact, most of they are Pokemon player. Which is a game based on AR (Augmented Reality). This technology recently becomes very popular, and Pokemon Go is now a very last try of AR games. The AR technology applied in Pokemon Go has showed the major feature of AR. Unlike video games, AR games don’t have built up maps or environments. It is a…

“Shaped by Writing, The Undergraduate Experience,” is about a study conducted by the “Harvard Study of Undergraduate Writing”. To elaborate, Harvard Study followed 400 students from their class of 2001, up until they graduated. Upon graduation, a certain few were asked about their undergraduate experience. All of the students described their undergraduate experience as a well learned trait, so to speak. One student says, “I couldn’t imagine college without writing now.” They expressed immense…

Throughout history, philosophers have been setting up plenty of theories to determine if the mind and the body are one. Substance dualism is one of those theories. Specifically, Descartes is a dualist who brings up the indivisibility argument about the mind that has been trusted until science is well developed. Even though Descartes’ argument is well-accepted, it is not strongly supported by factual evidence, and it is easily defeated by a simple question, which is how the mind and the body…

MARKET ANALYSIS The purpose of this market analysis is for Dove to increase their understanding of the New Zealand skincare market. Although the market is small compared to the Australian and American market, New Zealand has still had a steady growth in sales across the years 2007-2012 with the average increase of 15 million dollars over the 5 year period (Euromonitor, 2013). This has shown the popular demand of consumers for skincare products in the New Zealand market. With the New Zealand…

Since its humble beginnings in early 2006, Twitter has morphed and expanded into one of the top social media sites in the world today. In its early days, Twitter implemented the 5 C’s and other web 2.0 ideologies to change as its users changed with it, but in recent years, it has sacrificed usability for profits. This has all been at the expense of its users. That being said, as a startup like Twitter changes from a small convenience site to a social media giant, certain changes must take place…

Personal identity refers to certain properties that make a person feel a special sense of attachment or ownership. Both philosophers John Locke and Rene Descartes had contrasting views about one’s working mind. Descartes believes that the mind cannot be identical to the body whereas Locke emphasizes that our bodies and mind are the same thing. Locke’s ideas on personal identity are primarily focused on memory, whereas Descartes is focused on the “thinking mind.” The thinking mind is our way of…

Rene Descartes proposes a variant of substance dualism that maintains the equal and distinct existence of physical and mental substances. Descartes (1641) discusses that bodies are physical substances because they extend outward and occupy spatial regions while the human mind is a mental substance because it cannot extend through space (P.165). Descartes also notes fundamental differences on their activities; the human body is passive because it cannot think while the mind can handle complex…