God's infinite power and the impossibility of knowing his ends are frequently and emphatically asserted by Descartes. However, the Sixth Meditation sets certain limits on divine power and at the same time supposes that the end pursued by God through the union of mind and body can be known ...
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In the fifth and sixth paragraphs of the second meditation, Descartes distinguishes the body from the soul. Descartes indicates that there is the presence of the body, and it seems to be in the physical world, but he also notes that his mind does not seem to exist in the same manner. ...
This would be fine if the measurement of the electron spin were always up and the measured spin of the positron were always down. But because of quantum mechanics, the spin of each particle is both part up and part down until it is measured. Only when the measurement occurs does ...
He is also opposed to scientific discovery as for Descartes is not. Although Descartes believes that science relies on observation, Heidegger agrees with him that science is not really knowledge. Heidegger thinks science is just fact-finding and does not believe that if something is a certain way...
One recognizes here the celebrated “primitive passions” from Descartes’ 1649 treatise on the passions. Fear, disgust, and rage are negative, something that psychology, at its most exemplary in Paul Ekman, has called “primary emotions” since the 1970’s. For language, therefore, it is ...
It is true, that although most people, when asked say that their introspection verifies this statement, some persist in saying theirs does not. Many cannot be made to understand the question. When you beg them to imagine away every feeling of laughter and of tendency to laugh from their ...
Molecular biologists are close to this approach, as they work at a scale where the difference between humans and nature or even organic and mineral often loses grounding (for example with viruses or molecular engineering): this conception has clear affinities with Descartes' one (definition no. 2...
The idea of ‘nature’ is at the very core of science, considered as its flagship and deepest link with human societies. However, while nature preservation has become a major social concern, the idea of nature remains elusive. We examine here the origins