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Stuck Writing Your "Descartes" Question Answer?
Descartes took up a similar argument in support of the existence of God in his Fifth Meditation wherein he “claims to provide a proof demonstrating the existence of God from the idea of a supremely perfect being [arguing] that there is no less contradiction in conceiving a supremely perfect being who lacks existence than there is in conceiving a triangle whose interior angles do… Continue Reading...
reason. Beyond the above, Nozick wisely invokes the words of Descartes, who was noted as speaking about the difference between mind and matter and how they are not remotely the same thing. Nozick concurs with this line of thought but also insists that the two are inextricably linked and thus they generally cannot be considered separately (Nozick 165). Nozick explains a bit more and then says that something has intrinsic value when it is "organically unified" and that said unity is its value (Nozick 164). Nozick later notes that meaning and value are strongly linked and that they can "interweave… Continue Reading...
