René Descartes

Introduction The Matrix is a popular American-Australian science fiction movie that was first produced in 1999. The action movie depicts a unique dystopian future where the human-perceived reality is seen as a stimulated reality known as “the Matrix”. This stimulated reality created by sentient machines was designed to subdue the human population and use the heat and electrical activity of the human bodies as source of energy. A computer programmer known as “Neo” discovered the secret behind the…

Meditation, René Descartes aims to offer an argument for the existence of God, based simply on what he knows with certainty. In this, he reviews his doubts, what he knows for certain, and what he no longer doubts. While arguing the existence of God, Descartes explores God as a possible deceiver, his capacity to overcome this doubt in God’s goodness through formal and objective realities, and how effects supremely rely on their ultimate cause. Through his various claims and objections, Descartes…

Discourse on method was the works of Rene Descartes where he introduced the idea of rational method. Rene Descartes believed that one must avoid accepting anything as true that he or she did not personally and clearly know to be so, his philosophy was that “people needed to employ their own reasoning to grow in their understanding…

In the Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes attempted to establish a firm and permanent foundation for scientific knowledge. Philosophers raise the question of whether or not Descartes ' epistemological project was successful. Antoine Arnauld criticized Descartes ' project and accused him of circular reasoning. Many philosophers try to defend Descartes from this objection. However, Arnauld 's objection makes a valid criticism, which shows that Descartes ' epistemological project ultimately…

People seem obsessed with the idea that there is a being with their name, face, and ideas that is a significant part of the universe. I believe that the use of Descartes theory was the major philosophical player in the movie. The writers for the movie leaned on the fact that Sunny knew that he was a robot, but that he was also aware of the world around him and could also make judgements about what was right and wrong…

John Locke influenced the principles of religious tolerance, the principles of value and property, and the principles of political theory with his fore thinking. While at Christ Church, Oxford. He found the works of modern philosophers, such as René Descartes, more interesting than…

thoughts, emotions and sensations, while the body indicates the physical processes and entities that allow one to function physically. While both are essential to human existence, the nature of this relationship is heavily debated. The Philosopher René Descartes proposed thoughts on the mind-body concept that support physicalism, the belief that everything can be reduced to physical states: the concepts with which Gilbert Ryle famously refuted and disproved with his “category-mistake” theory.…

metabolism as well as a soul of pain that is regarded as perspective as well as pleasure and desire; that only animals and people share and lastly the faculty of reason that is present and is unique to humans. Dualism is closely associated with Rene Descartes view that the mind is non-physical in nature and is non-spatial as well. He further suggests that the brain is the seat of intelligence and the mind can easily be identified when consciousness and self-awareness are present. There are…

The Cartesian Evil Genius hypothesis, or The Evil Genius Doubt, is a philosophical skeptical hypothesis put forth by philosopher René Descartes. The hypothesis argues that one exists in a world populated with only a powerful God-like entity attempting to deceive the individual. In Descartes’ Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy , he puts forth multiple hypotheses that argue that the nature of existence should be doubted, each hypothesis is more extreme than the last, all…

for innate knowledge differ across various philosophers, for example Plato argues from the realm of the forms whereas Descartes argues from God. If both rationalists believe in innate knowledge for different reasons then although rational thought and logic is said to be universal, it in fact is not. This limits the reasons in which to agree for innate knowledge if it is not…