I here address Descartes' account of human nature as a union of mind and body by appealing to The Passions of the Soul. I first show that Descartes takes us to be able to reform the naturally instituted associations between bodily and mental states. I go on to argue that Descartes offers...
Mind-Body Dualism: Descartes introduces the concept of mind-body dualism, positing that the mind (res cogitans) and the body (res extensa) are fundamentally distinct substances. This dualism contrasts with both Plato's holistic view of the soul and Aristotle's belief that the soul is the form...
;In chapter 2 I reject certain types of modal understanding of the real distinction between mind and body and the argument for it. I contend that the argument is meant to show that mind and body are two different kinds of substances, and that it relies on Descartes's view that each ...
I knew from this that I was a substance, the whole essence or nature of which was to think and which, in order to exist, has no need of any place and does not depend on anything material. Thus this self—that is, the soul by which I am what I am—is completely distinct from ...
Descartes' View of Sense Perception Introduction - Descartes' Thesis: Some have suggested that René Descartes argues that sense perception relies on the mind rather than on the body. Descartes asserts that we can know our mind more readily than we can know our body. In support of this idea ...
The view that “Animals do not think “ or “Animals do not have language” does not entail that animals do not feel. (1) Discourse 5 TEXT: we could never mistake an automaton for a man. Why not? Because, says Descartes, an automaton could nevertalk: it could “never arrange its spe...
(Ariew, pp. 58–63). Uncontested, however, isthe view that the Discourse sketches out the metaphysicalunderpinnings of the Cartesian system. And, as a bonus, it has threeworks that are attached to it that are apparently added so as toexemplify the method of inquiry it develops (though ...
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. Descartes admits that he had earlier held such a view of gravity, envisioning the substantial form as a kind of goal-directed (teleological) mental property of bodies: “what makes it especially clear that my idea of gravity was taken largely from the idea I had of the mind is the ...
For I found myself tangled in so many doubts and errors that I came to think that my attempts to become educated had done me no good except to give me a steadily widening view of my ignorance! ·Could I infer anything quite general from this failure on myself in particular? I couldn...