Essays on Cartesian

Introduction

In more ways than one, the conceptualized constructs demarcating the means by which money exchange takes place within the contemporary world economy are profuse than they might actually appear. The ideology of a contemporary capitalism culture can be split two ways; the thinking of a financializer versus that of a technologist. This paper will take on a triangulation approach at trying to deconstruct the ideals of contemporary capitalism. By cross-referencing different theorizations, the two loudly acclaimed arrangements of abstraction – financialization and technological abstraction – shall be extrapolated and used to establish the actual stand concerning the doctrine of capitalism today.

Financialization

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Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the great thinkers who stood at the origins of modern European science. He studied at the Jesuit college of La Fleche. After military service he moved to the Netherlands, where he spent 20 years in solitary scientific and philosophical studies. The persecution of Dutch theologians forced him to move to Sweden (1649), where he died. . . . (Descares, Cottingham, Stoothoff & Murdoch 1). In his works there are organically combined interest in the ontological problem, the development and justification of the method of knowledge, in-depth research and discoveries in the field of mathematics, physics, cosmogony, and ...

The sine is the ratio of the opposite leg of the right triangle to its hypotenuse. Let’s imagine that we have the Cartesian coordinate system and a circumference with the same center and radius R. Every angle can be depicted as a rotation operation from the positive x-axis to some interval that joins together the center of the Cartesian coordinate system and some point of the circumference. The length of this interval is equal to the radius and can be depicted as the hypotenuse of the right triangle. The adjacent leg of the triangle belongs to the x-axis, ...

Descartes, Hume, and the author of Ecclesiastes express some form of skepticism. From their reading and arguments, we understand the extent of their skepticism and how they differ. In this paper, we will express the form of skepticism from Ecclesiastes, Descartes, and Hume. We will proceed ahead to illustrate how their skepticism differs. Moreover, we will provide insight into the different problems that the three philosophers are trying to confront with their respective versions. Furthermore, we will give viable reasons why Descartes version is the most plausible compared to the arguments of other authors. Furthermore, there might be a ...

Descartes approached the issue external existence by been skeptical of all knowledge from his senses. He stated that since he experienced similar sensations while dreaming and awake, and there been no way of differentiating the wake and dream perceptions, Descartes noted that it was possible that he was dreaming. He then proceeded to describe possible ways through which he could learn about material objects. Descartes presupposed that the cause of his ideas on material objects was himself just as a solipsist (Sperring). However, if he could doubt the truths, how then would he come to know the true beliefs? ...