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DESCARTES’ METHODIC DOUBT
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This 3 page paper examples how Descartes may have been influenced by Plato in the formation of his hyperbolic/methodic doubt theory. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBdesplat.rtf

Descartes, Kant & Sartre on God
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A 6 page essay/research paper that examines how Descartes, Kant and Sartre argued the existence or non-existence of God. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khdks.wps

Descartes/ Meditations
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A 5 page essay that examines the logic of Renee Descartes in his famous work Meditations on First Philosophy. The writer traces how Descartes first deconstructs his view of reality down to his perception of himself as a "thinking thing" and then reconstructs it based on reason. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdesmed.wps

Descartes/ The Nature of Existence
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A 6 page research paper that examines the philosophy of Rene Descartes and his famous argument concerning existence, I think therefore I am. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khiam.wps

Descartes/Meditation III
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A 3 page essay that discusses Rene Descartes' arguments on the existence of God as outlined in his Meditation III from Meditations on First Philosophy. Drawing on what he intuits to be true of his own mind and perception, Descartes arrives at the conclusion that God's existence is undeniable. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khdegod2.rtf

Descartes/Third Meditation & Existence of God
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A 5 page research paper that discusses the argument for the existence of God presented in Renes Descartes in his third mediation from his work Meditations on First Philosophy. The writer also discusses the differences between ontological and cosmological arguments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khdesgod.rtf

Descartes: Radical Doubt
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A 5 page overview of Descartes’ views on societal truth. Rationalists like Descartes maintained that synthetic judgments could be absolutely certain and that we could use radical doubt to thoroughly test knowledge and allow it to serve as a new indubitable basis for science. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPdescar.rtf

Descartes: The Cogito and Communication With Other Minds and Corporealities of Extension
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A 4 page overview of Descartes’ presentation of the cogito or “thinking thing” and the duality of mind and body which results. Details Descartes’ justification of the cogito and his explanation as to how it, separated from the world and its other beings, might nevertheless communicate reasonably with other minds and meaningfully relate to these and other corporealities of “extension”. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PPdesca4.rtf

Descartes: Dreaming Or Reality?
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6 pages in length. The writer discusses the separation between wakefulness and dreaming as they relate to Descartes' Meditations. No other sources cited.
Filename: TLCdescr.wps

Descartes: His Analysis of Melting Beeswax
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5 pages. This paper examines Descartes' analysis of the perception of melting beeswax and what it might really prove. We must wonder if he has gone too far when he infers that the nature of the wax is "in no way revealed" by the senses and that the perception is by the "mind alone." Other considerations will be his arguments about his awareness of himself as a thinking thing in his second mediation. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: JGAbeewx.wps