Descartes: The Father of Modern Philosophy
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is generally viewed as the "Father of Modern Philosophy." He both leads the rejection of traditional Scholastic...
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Descartes’ Method of Systematic Doubt
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Method of Systematic Doubt
Descartes is anything but a skeptic. But in his Meditations on First Philosophy he proposes that we...
Descartes’ Foundationalist Reconstruction
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Descartes' Foundationalism
Descartes is known as a foundationalist. A foundationalist thinks we begin our rational reconstruction of our worldview on the...
The Ecological Self
Ecology, Integral Ecology, Metaphysics, On Reason, Philosophy, Psyche, SoulArne Naess famously said the boundaries of our skin are not the boundaries of the self. This importance of this challenging (poetic) view to...
Plato on justice (4)
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While Socrates embodied virtue in his life and came to be seen in the Antique world as an archetype for...