Open Question: Philosophy help please!!!?

1.What does Descartes claim is the essence of the “I”?
2.According to Hume, knowledge claims divide into two groups. What are they? Give an example of each.
3.What does Hume claim is the source or origin of all of our knowledge?
4.What is a relation of ideas, according to Hume? Give an example.
5.What is empiricism?
6.What does Machiavelli mean by “new modes and orders”?
7.Explain the difference between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge.
8.According to Hume, is knowledge of causality a relation of ideas or a matter of fact?
9.What does Nietzsche say is “problematic” about Socrates?
10.In book 1 of the Republic what does Thrasymachus claim justice is?
11.What does Hume say is the difference between impressions and ideas?
12.What is inductive reasoning. Give an example.
13.What does Descartes think we can really know about the ball of wax he mentions in the Second Meditation?
14.What does Nietzsche mean by decadence?
15.Name one evolutionary claim Nietzsche makes in “On Truth and Lies”?
16.For Plato, is the knowledge from our senses valued more or less than the knowledge had through reason?
17.What is the difference between a simple and a complex idea? Give an example.
18.What is the difference between an essence and an accident? Give an example.
19.What do dreams and hallucinations tell us about the relationship between the cause and the content of our perceptions in Descartes’ Meditations?
20.How does Machiavelli think we should begin thinking about politics?
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Open Question: Good topics for a 5 page philosophy paper?

I have to write a 5 page term paper for INTRODUCTORY PHILOSOPHY. We’ve read Plato’s Phaedo, Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Berkeley’s Three Dialogues. Works can be tied together or the focus can be on one work. I’m looking for something interesting and different to explore but also want to make sure I have substantial material to write about. Help. Please.
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Open Question: Good topics for a 5 page philosophy paper?

I have to write a 5 page term paper for INTRODUCTORY PHILOSOPHY. We’ve read Plato’s Phaedo, Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Berkeley’s Three Dialogues. Works can be tied together or the focus can be on one work. I’m looking for something interesting and different to explore but also want to make sure I have substantial material to write about. Help. Please.
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Open Question: Fast points for easy question!!?

It has been claimed that the history of Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato—in other words, that every view in the history of philosophy already can be found in Plato. Explain, with reference to the Republic, whether, and if so in what respect, Descartes’ Meditations bears out this claim.
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Open Question: Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy?

I know that Rene Descartes wrote about six different meditations but it’s really hard for me to understand each one.

How does Epistemology and knowledge tie in?

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Open Question: Philosophy Essay for final exam?

It’s for the final exam of my college philosophy class. Because my class was only 8 weeks long, I feel that the material was not extensively covered. I am quite confused and jumbled right now because of all the information that has been thrown at me. For the exam, the professor has given me several prompts. I will by random be assigned 3 of those prompts which I must write a one page quick essay for. seems easy enough. Can you guys please help give me a couple sentences of the main topics that the prompts are asking for? I’m not asking for any actual essay help, just more or less summaries or main ideas answering the question with 1-2 sentences so I can actually have something to write during the exam because right now, I’m so confused I can’t even write a page confidently.

1. Descartes’ Meditations on first philosophy
Explain the initial dream argument that Descartes proposes in Meditation 1 for why he might not be recently sitting in his dressing gown by the fire holding a piece of paper in his hands. What objection does he raise against this argument, and what more worrisome dream argument does he then raise in response? What beliefs of his survive this more worrisome dream argument? What beliefs of his don’t survive the argument? Discuss.

2. Berkeley a treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
Carefully formulate Berkeley’s argument for why material substance does not exist (given in sections 3-6 of the Principles). What objections might be raised against the argument?

3. G.E. Moor’s proof of the External World
What is Moor’s argument for the claim that external things exist outside of his mind? why does he think that this argument counts as rigorous proof of the external world, and how does he respond to the objection that he failed to prove the premises of his argument?

4. Enquiry concerning human understanding
Carefully formulate and explain Hume’s argument for why we cannot know any proposition about matters of fact outside our immediate experience or memories. What is Hume’s skeptical solution to these doubts? What is Hume’s analysis of the true connection in our minds between experienced events and those which we have not yet experienced? Why does he think that we will continue to think that the sun will rise tomorrow even though we have no rational reason for believing this?

Thank you guys so much!
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Open Question: I need help with my philosophy essays?

It’s for the final exam of my college philosophy class. Because my class was only 8 weeks long, I feel that the material was not extensively covered. I am quite confused and jumbled right now because of all the information that has been thrown at me. For the exam, the professor has given me several prompts. I will by random be assigned 3 of those prompts which I must write a one page quick essay for. seems easy enough. Can you guys please help give me a couple sentences of the main topics that the prompts are asking for? I’m not asking for any actual essay help, just more or less summaries or main ideas answering the question with 1-2 sentences so I can actually have something to write during the exam because right now, I’m so confused I can’t even write a page confidently.

1. Descartes’ Meditations on first philosophy
Explain the initial dream argument that Descartes proposes in Meditation 1 for why he might not be recently sitting in his dressing gown by the fire holding a piece of paper in his hands. What objection does he raise against this argument, and what more worrisome dream argument does he then raise in response? What beliefs of his survive this more worrisome dream argument? What beliefs of his don’t survive the argument? Discuss.

2. Berkeley a treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
Carefully formulate Berkeley’s argument for why material substance does not exist (given in sections 3-6 of the Principles). What objections might be raised against the argument?

3. G.E. Moor’s proof of the External World
What is Moor’s argument for the claim that external things exist outside of his mind? why does he think that this argument counts as rigorous proof of the external world, and how does he respond to the objection that he failed to prove the premises of his argument?

4. Enquiry concerning human understanding
Carefully formulate and explain Hume’s argument for why we cannot know any proposition about matters of fact outside our immediate experience or memories. What is Hume’s skeptical solution to these doubts? What is Hume’s analysis of the true connection in our minds between experienced events and those which we have not yet experienced? Why does he think that we will continue to think that the sun will rise tomorrow even though we have no rational reason for believing this?

Thank you guys so much!
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Open Question: I need help with my philosophy essays?

It’s for the final exam of my college philosophy class. Because my class was only 8 weeks long, I feel that the material was not extensively covered. I am quite confused and jumbled right now because of all the information that has been thrown at me. For the exam, the professor has given me several prompts. I will by random be assigned 3 of those prompts which I must write a one page quick essay for. seems easy enough. Can you guys please help give me a couple sentences of the main topics that the prompts are asking for? I’m not asking for any actual essay help, just more or less summaries or main ideas answering the question with 1-2 sentences so I can actually have something to write during the exam because right now, I’m so confused I can’t even write a page confidently.

1. Descartes’ Meditations on first philosophy
Explain the initial dream argument that Descartes proposes in Meditation 1 for why he might not be recently sitting in his dressing gown by the fire holding a piece of paper in his hands. What objection does he raise against this argument, and what more worrisome dream argument does he then raise in response? What beliefs of his survive this more worrisome dream argument? What beliefs of his don’t survive the argument? Discuss.

2. Berkeley a treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
Carefully formulate Berkeley’s argument for why material substance does not exist (given in sections 3-6 of the Principles). What objections might be raised against the argument?

3. G.E. Moor’s proof of the External World
What is Moor’s argument for the claim that external things exist outside of his mind? why does he think that this argument counts as rigorous proof of the external world, and how does he respond to the objection that he failed to prove the premises of his argument?

4. Enquiry concerning human understanding
Carefully formulate and explain Hume’s argument for why we cannot know any proposition about matters of fact outside our immediate experience or memories. What is Hume’s skeptical solution to these doubts? What is Hume’s analysis of the true connection in our minds between experienced events and those which we have not yet experienced? Why does he think that we will continue to think that the sun will rise tomorrow even though we have no rational reason for believing this?

Thank you guys so much!
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Open Question: URGENT: Descartes Meditations?

ok so i have a philosophy paper due in 12 hours and i really need help on this question:
given descartes essential nature of being an intellectual thing, what special classes of ideas poses a problem that motivates the proof of dualism?
TEN POINTS TO ANYONE WHO CAN GIVE ME ABOUT A PARAGRAPH’S WORTH OF INFO ON THIS
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Open Question: Descartes Meditations?

How does Descartes arrive at his doubt in ‘math beliefs’?

What’s the first belief that he thinks it is impossible to doubt?

How does Descartes reach his conclusion that he’s a “thinking thing”? what is included in the term “thinking” in this designation?

What is the conclusion of the ‘wax argument’?

After he determines that he exists, what being’s existence does he ‘prove’? How does Descartes make use of this being in his quest for knowledge?
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