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Descartes' Method applied to literary texts
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A five page paper which applies Descartes' Method to a number of texts including More's Utopia and Golding's Lord of the Flies.
Filename: JLdescmeth.rtf

Descartes' Second Meditation
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This 3 page paper examines concepts in this meditation. The soul and mind are evaluated. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA717Des.rtf

Descartes' Sense Perception Argument
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This 8 page paper examines Descartes' theories in depth. Different ideas are examined as well. This paper ultimately supports the philosopher's position. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA601Des.rtf

Descartes' Views on Knowledge
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This 4 page paper examines Rene Descartes and his views on knowledge. The cogito is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA512Des.rtf

Descartes's Meditations and His View of God
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This 5 page paper examines Descartes's mediations and looks at his definition of God, and specifically why God cannot be a deceiver. The philosopher's argument is examined for logic and validity. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA239Des.rtf

Descartes's Philosophy of Doubt
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This 14 page paper examines and critiques Descartes's philosophy . The dreaming argument is examined as well. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: SA220Des.rtf

Descartes's Proof of God's Existence
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This 6 page paper focuses on Descartes's proof, but addresses other related issues. Possible motives for Descartes's desire to prove that God exists are a part of the discussion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA109Des.wps

Descartes’ Cogito Argument
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This is a 4 page paper discussing the interpretations of Descartes’ cogito argument. Philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) wrote his Mediations de prima philosophia in 1641 in an attempt to find the basic absolute truths in our beliefs, more specifically into a “belief he can be certain is true, even if he is believing, or God or an evil demon is trying to deceive him as fully as possible”. In Mediation II (1642), Descartes writes that “So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind”. There are several interpretations which have arisen from Descartes’ Mediation II, the most common being the idea “Cogito ergo sum” or “I am thinking, therefore I exist”. The two main interpretations of Descartes’ Mediation II involve the emphasis of the “I” within “I am, I exist” and the emphasis of the concept “think” within “I am thinking, therefore I exist”. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TJcogit1.rtf

Descartes’ Deductive Reasoning, Definitions and Principles Used to Argue the Existence of God
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This is a 5 page paper discussing Descartes’ deductive reasoning, definitions and principles used in proving the existence of God. In Rene Descartes’ Meditation III, he proposes a logical argument to prove the existence of God. To do this, he presents an internally consistent argument through deductive reasoning and in addition provides further clarification for the reader in terms of definitions of formal and objective reality and principles for reality which help clarify his argument. Even without the further definitions and explanations of the principles however, upon accepting the initial premises that “nothing comes from nothing”, “the cause of the effect must have as much reality as its effect”, and “the cause of the idea must have as much reality as the idea itself”, then the introduction of the idea of God, and the cause of this idea is logical in its conclusion that since only God has infinite reality then only God is the cause of the idea of God (also infinite reality) and therefore God exists. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TJDesca1.rtf

Descartes’ Meditations: “I Think Therefore I Am” and Voluntarism
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A 5 page paper which examines Descartes’ Meditations as they involve the famous statement “I Think Therefore I Am” and the concept of voluntarism. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAiam.rtf