“God is the only substance that can exist or be conceived.” Spinoza’s criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism By: Jawad Samimi 01/04/2012 Substance dualism is often called ‘Cartesian dualism" and is the assumption that mind and body are really distinct substances. Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) was the first early modern philosopher to hold that a thinking-thing is entirely different form an extended thing and mind can exist without the body. Cartesian dualism‚ which started the famous mind-body
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First‚ I will discuss the views of Descartes’ philosophy about knowledge. In his writing‚ Mediations on First Philosophy‚ Descartes claims that knowledge originates from reasoning‚ thinking. He begins the argument by expressing that even though the knowledge he has obtained was through the use of his senses‚ he is unable to have faith in them because they are deceivable. “Whatever I have accepted until now as most true has come to me through my senses. But occasionally I have found that they have
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While both Galileo and Descartes advocate a more mathematical natural philosophy‚ what they advocate greatly differ from one another. Overall‚ Galileo tries to relate objects in terms of proportions and uses more Archimedean principles like Archimedes’ work on floating bodies and his simple machines. Because of this‚ Galileo’s natural philosophy is mechanical. It is clear that Galileo strives to make natural philosophy a discipline of mathematics. He tries to make mathematics a more respectable science
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with‚ Descartes‚ divided the world into two kinds of substances. He divided it by the “res cogitas” and “res extensa‚” which translates into “thinking substance‚ or mind and soul” and “extended substance‚ or body.” Afterwards‚ Descartes further divides substance into two more sections‚ “infinite thinking substance and finite thinking substance.” Descartes does not divide extended substance in two more sections as he claims that all extended substances are finite extended substances. As Descartes continues
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completely certain and indubitable. So all I need‚ for the purpose of rejecting all my opinions‚ is to find in each of them at least some reason for doubt. I can do this without going through them one by one‚ which would take forever: once 1 Rene Descartes‚ Meditations
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Rene Descartes: A Great Thinker of the Western World “I think therefore I am” are the words that come to mind as we encounter the subject of Descartes. We see man full of knowledge and ideas ready to expand and break free. His interest in knowledge and the acquisition of truth itself brought him to doubt all around him‚ including God and his very own existence. He is even considered to be the Father of Modern philosophy because he guided the thinkers of his time to deviate from the Scholastic-Aristotelian
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Descartes argues in “Meditation VI” that he can exist without his body. What is his argument for this? Can you similarly imagine existing without a body? If so how? If not why not? Discuss. The concern of the following paper is on the most significant premises found in Cartesian dualism‚ namely the mind-body dualism. Proposed initialy by French philosopher-mathematician Rene Descartes‚ the claim for an independent relationship between the existence of intelligable and corporeal things
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In Descartes’ Meditations On First Philosophy specifically the 6th Meditation’s 10th paragraph‚ Descartes goes through the process of‚ what he believes to be‚ proving the conclusion: That corporeal objects do exist. In this essay Descartes’ argument will be deconstructed into its premises‚ explaining those premises‚ reconstructing the argument‚ and lastly evaluation of the validity and soundness of his argument. Descartes begins his argument my stating his first premise‚ which is that he has the
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