... human being. As you can see I analyzed each of Gregersen's seven reasons of personhood and have countered each one. While doing this I have come to the conclusion, much like Rene Descartes that a human can only be defined by our existence and nothing more. The only un-doubtable statement we can make is that human existence is what makes us human ... . Descartes most clearly states to me what a human is in his second meditation: "But what am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is ... ...

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... independent of any empirical condition and is conditioned by the mere form of law. Feeling of obligation cannot be deduced from a basic principle such as Plato's idea of Good or Descartes" cogito because such ideas are not knowable and representable and they are above human reason and autonomy. According to Kant anything independent from experience, unconditional cannot be known and represented ... ...

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... heritage of William Ockham and Cusanus and confirms Cusanus' foundation of sciences, which is elaborated into an analytical-synthetic epistemological model to approach reality. Comparing the theories of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Newton, Locke and Vico, each in their own way reflects the above mentioned, adage. At the same time Augustine's introspective search for truth is further radicalised inasmuch ... ...

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... out into books. During the trip he was an intimate of Meresenne, who at the time was at the center of the scintitific circle. That circle include the like of Descartes and Gassendi. His first publication was when he returned titled, Elements of Law and politic. This book showed the theories that he began to evovle for him during this third ... ...

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... - could have arisen from hereditary life experiences of "unfairness", but I"ll speak of this later. Our knowledge of reasoning is separately superior to the reality of appearances and relates to Descartes cognito ergo sum - I think therefore I exist theory in the sense that inner reasoning is the one thing we are more certain of that any other apparently existing external thing which ... ...

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... in immoral behavior, it doesn't mean that they have an immoral character. I do believe one of the characters was the most moral however, and that is Gavin Banek. According to Descartes the reason there is evil in the world is because we don't truly know right from wrong. We have limited free will, but limited knowledge. Because of limited knowledge, we ... ...

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