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Give an account of Descartes' arguments from dreams, being careful to show which beliefs are allegedly undermined along the way.
... say that if your sensory experience is reporting a coherent world, which is not disjointed, or counters fundamental beliefs, that ... beliefs, that it is the real world and you are awake? No, for not all dreams are disjointed or incoherent, and even those that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Why did Rousseau believe that modern society was corrupt and unfree?
... The main concept of Rousseau's thought is that of 'liberty', and his belief that modern society forced humans to give up their ... is an expression of Rousseau's belief that humans are corrupted by modern day society. Rousseau says that the state is unjust ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Mill's belief that if a person isn't harming anyone other than themselves, the gov't shouldn't step in
... beliefs which he defends. The first criticism is that these citizens who do whatever they want are acting like children. The second criticism is that ... s views about justice are criticized by those thinking that these people who are doing things to hurt ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Scientists claim that water = H2O. Suppose that a neuroscientist claimed that pain = the firing of c-fibres. How would a functionalist argue against the neuroscientist's claim?
... belief that mental states have a substantial essence; and functionalism, the belief that the ... belief that the essence is functional. In this essay I will be assessing each of the claims made by functionalists arguing against the neuroscientists claim that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Michel Foucault's claim that "Western man has become a confessing animal".
... belief that sex, especially discourses about sex, have been 'repressed'. Instead, Foucault suggests that sex was never actually 'repressed', and that' ... or just in everyday life. I'm guessing that by stating that Western man has become a confessing animal, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
The Cartesian Mythology
... that whets away substandard belief from a body of knowledge, or any kind of belief that affords even the slightest doubt about it. When a belief ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Two philosophies and their bel
... human belief. Both authors have different theories on what makes a person form those beliefs that are ... belief has a few rules that set the basis of his beliefs. The word that best describes his theory is skepticism. The main doctrine that makes up his belief ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
David Hume's critique of the belief in Miracles
... reason in contradicting the validity of a miracle is that he views all of our beliefs, or what we choose to accept, or not ... Miracles lead to such strong temptations, that we as individuals tend to lose sense of our own belief of fantasy and reality. As ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... are all born as innocents. This is contrary to Christian religious beliefs that we are born with original sin. We are born with natural ... beliefs covered many ideas of life. He believed that humans were born good but social interaction changed us, making us ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Transcendentalism: What it is? Examples of it; Critics against it; Position on it
... belief that God, nature, and humanity are united in a shared universal soul. The quote shows this belief by saying that ... story we are able to see that Hawthorne is deliberately criticizing the Transcendental belief that God, nature, and humanity are ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy