Estela Garcia June 10‚ 2014 PHI 2010 Module 3: Chapter 13 & 15. 1. Explain and evaluate the notions of Karma‚ samsara‚ and Nirvana. - Karma‚ samsara and nirvana fall under the religion of Hinduism. When all of our actions bring consequences‚ either in this life or the next is referred as karma. Samsara means the cycle of birth and death. Us humans are basically good‚ but are caught up in a cycle of pure desire and also of suffering that is a direct result of ignorance and of the
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of all knowledge‚ superior to sense evidence. In other words‚ rationalism is the idea that people need to have some sort of reasoning to back up their ideas. Nobody is going to believe you just because you said it‚ you have to provide evidence. Rationalists believe that abstract reasoning can produce absolute truths about nature and existence in general which relates to his idea of the coherence theory of truth and how evidence is required for ideas to be made. An ontological argument is an argument
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of what we are now Plato believed that a soul transmigrated until it was able to free itself from physical form and returned to the realm without form. Plato also taught that true knowledge came from the soul and reason which would make him a rationalist and he believed that things like beauty and good in the physical world were reflections of reality. He taught that the physical body had "forgotten" its true self and thus the soul would move about until such time as it became aware of its true
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The Nature of Reality: What Is Versus What Seems? Philosophy is a way of thinking about the world. It is the study of ideas about knowledge‚ truth‚ the nature and meaning of life‚ etc. and it consists of several different sections‚ one being metaphysics. Metaphysics is the part of philosophy that is concerned with the basic causes and nature of things. It distinguishes between what is and what seems‚ as seen in Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave.” Metaphysics aims to answer: what‚ most fundamentally
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find a solution to overcome doubt is much stronger than Descartes’. Peirce also makes it known that he is aware of belief in which Descartes does not. Their beliefs result from the notion of clear and distinct ideas. Peirce and Descartes are both rationalists who believe that there is an independent truth and they know it when they see it. The problem that exists is that Descartes and Peirce realize that their senses and ideas could lead to rejection and doubt. The difference between Peirce and Descartes
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existence of God has an extreme influence on the majority of philosophical debate and questioning and no more so than with Descartes and his meditations. His meditations and his method of approaching philosophical questioning all derive from a rationalist ideology. Therefore he argues that all humans are thinking beings and have ideas prior to experience due to their intellectual existence and not of a sensual one. His meditations are primarily to dismiss Empiricism and to reveal that doubt is necessary
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How convincing is the view that we are born with at least some (innate) knowledge? Innate knowledge is knowledge that is already in the mind without experience. This is the view taken by rationalists‚ which contrasts against the empiricist view that the mind starts tabula rasa‚ and all knowledge is gained through experience. Plato argued that all ideas or concepts are innate and that when you gain knowledge‚ it’s merely recollecting what you already know innately. The view that we are born
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Everything including our ideas has a cause. 2) We have an idea of God. 3) Nothing less than God is adequate to be the cause of our idea of God. An lastly 4) Therefore God exists. My View - Considering the fact that Descartes was a rationalist and a very religious man‚ you can see why he would desperately try to make sense of everything‚ including God. I believe his proof that he has laid out for us that God exists is false. What Descartes is trying to tell us is that our idea
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Reason Alone. In Critique of Pure Reason Kant discusses the dispute between rationalism and empiricism. The empiricists argued that all ideas are derived from sensation‚ and that objects of sensation are the only proper objects of knowledge. The rationalists argued that some ideas are not derived from sensation but are instead innate to reason‚ and that these ideas provide one with knowledge of supersensible realities such as God. Kant argues how knowledge is devoted to the power of demonstrating the
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Rene Descartes was a French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ and scientist. He was the father of the theory “I think‚ therefore I am‚” he was a rationalist and strong believer that anything can be solved by thinking. He touched on one of the most controversial topics‚ the belief of God. This is known as the trademark argument in which I believe is not sound. Descartes as a philosopher‚ questions everything around him. He even questions whether or not he truly exists as a person. He believes he does exists
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