Thus, on the hypothesis that the cosmos did begin in time, it would depend on the infinite power of God to have created it. Now what depends on another to bring it into existence clearly does not account for its own existence, but rather depends on another for the existence it has recei...
But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. In ...
949-964 Hari, S., How Often or How Rarely Does a Self-Transcending Experience Occur? Descartes R. (1901). Meditations on First Philosophy (J. Veitch, Trans). Original publication in Latin 1641. Online: http://www.wright.edu/cola/descartes/mede.html 964 Godman D. (2002). Ramana ...
41. Write a short essay of about 300 words based on your understanding of the excerpt. Remember to write in your OWN words. Your essay should respond to the following questions: 1) What is the main issue that Descartes explores in this excerpt, and what is his method? 2) What is your...
I doubt we disagree really. I expect you’d agree with Descartes that ‘cogito’ is secure knowledge even though it is not empirical by our usual definition, and that it may even be secure for that very reason. I’ve never heard Descartes accused of being a mystic for this mysterious ins...
God! I need a drink – Alcoholic, of course – After all those lectures Involving radical equations. — Anonymous mathematicians everywhere How I want a drink, Alcoholic of course, After the heavy chapters Involving quantum equations. — Sir James Jeans, (c) 1932 ...
In sum, according to Rashi’s commentary, both logically and chronologically the first “other” in the Bible is woman.4She is a phantasm of the first wife, as the wife faces the prospect of death. Adam does not call his wife “other.” On the contrary, Adam finds the wife the closes...