The article focuses on one of the most serious accusations brought against Descartes and modern philosophy, namely "the dualism of substance". The accusers claim that the human body and soul were viewed as completely separate; consequently, their relationship as such and the united being of man ...
I argue that substance dualism is true. Substance dualism claims that people and bodies are distinct. People, such as you and I, are nonphysical beings. We are connected human bodies, but we are not bodies. The reason is that (1) If we can exist without bodies, then we cannot be bodie...
Descartes' inspiration for substance dualism was his belief that the body and the mind are two distinct substances. He believed that the mind is a... See full answer below. Learn more about this topic: Rene Descartes & Dualism | Theory, Ideas & Self ...
In Principles of Philosophy, Descartes explained, "we can clearly perceive a substance apart from the mode which we say differs from it, whereas we cannot, conversely, understand the mode apart from the substance". To perceive a mode apart from its substance requires an intellectual abstraction,...
Descartes's Conception of Mind Through the Prism of Imagination: Cartesian Substance Dualism Questioned The aim of this article is to clarify an aspect of Descartes's conception of mind that seriously impacts on the standard objections against Cartesian Duali... L Gaudemard - 《Archiv Für Geschic...
The pleasing vindication clashes with Descartes' dualism. If substance is divided exclusively and exhaustively into res cogitans and res extensa, what room is there for animal sensation? Since an animal is not a res cogitans, has no mind or soul, ...
10perception and imagination in the case of thinking substance and figureand motion in the case of extended substance would be both ontologicallyand epistemically without any foundation. As a consequence, they couldneither be nor be thought of.If these attributes are the essences oftheir substances...
R. Descartes’ Sixth Meditation is almost entirely devoted to questioning the relation between what exists in the mind, and what actually exists outside of a conceptual plane. Descartes poses plenty of questions to himself and the reader, putting their basic understanding of what is real to the...
I develop an approach to the interpretation and evaluation of Cartesian dualism which stresses the central role that Descartes's mechanistic science plays in its development. Descartes's contention that mind and body are distinct, I argue, is analogous to the contention in Aristotelian psychology that...
coming generations. His main concern was with what we can know, or in other words, certain knowledge. The other great question that preoccupied him was the relationship between body and mind. Both these questions were the substance of philosophical argument for the next hundred and fifty years....