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Would someone be so kind as to aid me with my philosophy paper? I'm a bit lost and would like some guidance.
Will post topics in following posts if there are people willing.

>> No.6283627

What's he mean by "the world's a tale"?

>> No.6283632

Descartes: Babby's first philosophy

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6283648

These are the topics

>> No.6283665

ssb

>> No.6283707

Halp pls

>> No.6283740

>>6283648
Dude, just pick the last one. Have you read the Meditations? They're really short and that question only asks you to summarize and give your opinion. Easy as fuck. If you can't do that by yourself, well, you deserve to fail that paper.

>> No.6283752

These are all easy as heck and like >>6283740 said you pretty much deserve to fail if you can't do it.
I shouldn't help you, but just choose (A) and plagiarize http://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf

>> No.6283761

>>6283740
>>6283752
Thanks a bunch guys!

>> No.6283781

>>6283622
Yeah, if you're having trouble, C is probably your best bet. Just read the first two meditations slowly, thinking about each step as it goes along (ask yourself why Descartes saying what he is, if he right, etc.). Then think for a while about what the starting point was and what the conclusion was, and how Descartes got there, and whether you found it convincing. Then read them again. This should put you in a pretty good position to tackle the arguments about his own existence. Try to write out how the argument goes, step by step, in the most explicit way possible. Then repeat this process for the rest of the meditations, which have the argument for the external world (which you'll likely find much less convincing).

PS: Check out the Objections & Replies to the meditations (probably included in whatever book your using; if not, should be east to find), where other philosophers from Descartes's day responded to the meditations and Descartes replied to them.

>> No.6283804

>>6283781
Great, I understand. Thanks so much.