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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"René Descartes"”.
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An Architectural Follie on Monte San Giorgio
… space, a space that was given a framework by René Descartes in his notion of extension, and exists as a free body. In contrast, the architectonic is contingent on placement and the forces of gravity. They are simultaneously contradictory and co-related. This thesis pursues the limits of this …
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The content, context and influence of the work of Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540)
… of Pierre Gassendi, the study of the soul by René Descartes, and the pedagogy of John Locke. Gassendi was instrumental in reviving interest in Epicurianism and in the work of Sextus Emipricus. (DXN004,921)
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… of knowledge represented by thinkers such as René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and philosophical hermeneutics theorists; (b) to deepen the theory of argumentative nature that allows the search for truth in moral issues through coherent argumentation amalgamated into the …
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EFFECTIVE HISTORY: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN RATIONALITY
… Bacon’s institution of modem science, and René Descartes’ articulation of the “cogito.” The readings presented in these chapters emphasize the singularity of these authors’ work. They demonstrate the break that Bacon and Descartes instituted with respect to their predecessors, and identify …
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Identitätsbildung von trans\*Migrant\*innen. Eine empirische Analyse unter Berücksichtigung heteronormativer Machtstrukturen
… einen Einfluss auf Identitätstheorien haben: René Descartes stellte die Annahme auf, dass es einen inneren (unveränderbaren) Wesenskern gibt, welcher sich unabhängig von der Gesellschaft ausbildet. Dieses Denken eines atomistischen Individuums findet sich in der klassischen Subjektphilosophie …
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A Case for Music as Therapy: “Healing and Purgation,” and the Expressiveness of Music from Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century
… writings of Plato, Aristotle, Marsilio Ficino, René Descartes, Gioseffo Zarlino, Athanasius Kircher, Robert Burton, Richard Browne, among other thinkers. Their lofty subjects, though seemingly broad, have more often than not been interrelated and were once studied in light of one another. This …
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Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes
… traces the effects that attending to Descartes' deployment of fable have on our understanding of the Cartesian method and its conception of the imagination. Descartes must take on the task of inaugurating a break from Scholastic metaphysics and physics. Because of the limitations he …
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A Review of the Principal Questions in Richard Price’s Moral Intuitionism
… mind the influence of Plato, Ralph Cudworth, and René Descartes. However, I also note how Price differs from Plato and Cudworth, as well as how Price may still face difficulties associated with their views. Noting Price’s influences will give a fuller picture of the intuitionism he defends (as …
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Natural Philosophy and Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
This thesis explores the disciplinary relationship between natural philosophy (the study of nature or body) and theology (the study of the divine) in seventeenth-century England. Early modern disciplines had two essential functions. First, they set the rules and boundaries of argument – knowledge …