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"Meditations" ( Descartes )
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"Meditations" ( Descartes )
Analyzes the philosopher's development of his theory of rational reality based on the meditation on a lump of wax.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages) |
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1999
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the section of Descartes's Meditations in which he develops a theory of mind by means of meditation upon a lump of wax. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context for a discussion that connects a lump of wax to philosophical theory, and then to discuss how he formulates a theory of rational (i.e., mind-based) reality that is the standard for measuring human experience of the material world. In other words, by what Descartes ultimately declares to be known about the wax, he arrives at a theory of innate mental concepts, which seems intended to explain in a methodical and systematic way what is real, or most real, about the physical world, or anyway the human experience of the physical world. Indeed, the fact that the title of the work as a whole is Meditations is a clue to Descartes's application of speculative ..."More papers on "Meditations" ( Descartes ):
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"Meditations" ( Descartes ) (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Meditations-Descartes/14608
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""Meditations" ( Descartes )" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Meditations-Descartes/14608>
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