René Préval

Rene Descartes was born to Joachim Descartes and Jeanna Brochard on May 31, 1596. He was the oldest of three (surviving) children. Descartes was born into a fairly wealthy family which was full of Doctors and Lawyers. He was raised by his grandmother, Jeanne Sain, in La Haye, France. He began to attend the Jesuit College at La Fleche, France during the year 1607. Descartes obtained a well-rounded liberal arts education before leaving the college in 1614. Between the years of 1615 and 1616 he…

The novel “Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding is set on a remote island in the pacific ocean. The island is a paradise, with almost constant perfect weather. It is also stuffed with tropical fruits and animals for food, and the best part, there are no adults on the island. There was four main kids on an island, in mostly good health. Although they had a perfect start on a dream island, it soon turned to chaos. As Thomas Hobbes had predicted, if humans have freedom and choice to do whatever…

In Discourse on Method and Related Writings author René Descartes explains how he developed his unique and, especially for his time, unconventional reasoning in an autobiographical style. The story of his intellectual development is an unconventional one, and he describes how his revolutionary method had transformed him into the distinguished and ever prevalent philosopher that we know him to be today. It is apparent that Descartes was the black sheep of his class, using other methods and…

3) While Cartesian dualism says that there are two different mental and physical entities that make up the mind, functionalism argues that the brain is an independent entity. Functionalism says that the brain – a singular entity – contains two kinds of properties, mental and physical. Thus, it is a form of dualism in the sense that there are two different things in play, yet only one physical entity which these properties reside in. It solves the causal relation problem that Cartesian dualism…

René Magritte is a surrealist artist who has produced a reputation for his “clever and intriguing imagery” using basic designs and ordinary symbolism. Maybe viewers for the most part got caught by his The Son of Man painting, but may not know the painter by name. Rather would recognize the iconic painting and the repetitive topic and theme in another depiction by this artist. There's considerably more to know about Magritte and how the painting fits into his works as a whole. René François…

Descartes’s argument for substance dualism stems from his famous one-liner, “I think, therefore I am.” In this statement, Descartes thinks and knows that he exists. He attributes his self, “I”, as being rooted in his mind, and he perceives his existence extended and apart from other things in his body, i.e. his body is not everything around him, but rather a biological machine extended in a certain amount of space. Descartes thinks that because a mind and body can be understood separate from…

The definition of caveman logic according the Caveman Logic by Hank Davis is a reference of a more superstitious and primitive part of our mentality (Davis, 2009 p.12). Therefore, I want to talk about my own case of caveman logic mentality that happened back in 2012 in Boston on April 15. In addition, I also want to talk about the cognitive error that occurred. Therefore, I can analyze them in the following essay. On that day two bombs went off around the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What if that picture was worth more than words could ever speak? What if it could define what we call reality and reshape our perception of the representation of what we define as “normal”? Belgian artist René Magritte captures the idea of reality and distorts the representation of everyday objects through his work, Les Valeurs Personnelles, or Personal Values, painted in 1952. This work not only highlights the values of the time period it was…

I will analyze Descartes’ Indivisibility Argument for Mind/Body Dualism. Descartes’ argument is deductively valid and deductively sound since all premises support the conclusion therefor all of the premises are true. I validate Descartes’ Indivisibility Argument for Mind/Body Dualism by using each premise in the argument and how each premise is a strong back bone why the conclusion is true. Also having awareness of the other side of the argument and using strong counter arguments to build up an…

The Mind-Body Problem, and Human Understanding Rene Descartes (1998) believed that the mind and body were two separate things, which could exist without each other, a type of dualism known as interactionism (Kardas, 2014, pg. 174). His theory, however, came to be known as the mind-body problem, due to the lack of any clear, concrete understanding of his ideas (Kardas, 2014, pg. 174). In contrast, John Locke’s (1998) theories showed that the mind used the body to obtain sensory information,…