Rene' Descartes, a French philosopher, mathematician and writer has been dubbed the father of modern and Western philosophy. ... Dualism- that is the claim that the mind and body are two entirely separate categories- is often associated with Descartes. ... Descartes believes that the body, by nature is always divisible. ... Descartes' original suggestion was that this interaction is controlled by the pineal gland but that was later proved false. ... Descartes comes up with a demonstration involving a piece of wax. ...

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Descartes cant trust the senses relating to the welfare of the body because of the following cases: First, after a man's leg is amputated, he still sometimes fells pain on the lost leg. ... Since these senses are all taught by the "nature of man, Descartes wonders " how goodness of God doesnt prevent nature, this consider, from being deceptive?" ... According to Descartes, the relation between mind and body is unlike the relation between a sailor and his ship. Descartes believes that teaching by nature is same as teaching by God. ... When Descartes' body is injured, he can feel the p...

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Descartes' division between mind and body, on the one hand, might seem to have value. ... We have a self-consciousness that lets us know God, as Descartes proves. ... Therefore, Descartes may be right to divide these phenomena. ... So, Descartes would seem to be collapsing the dualism himself because the gland draws upon both substances, both mind and body; it is neither one nor the other for Descartes. ... Is Descartes conceding that a part of the mind has a physical dimension? ...

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Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. ... Descartes believed that if two things do not have identical properties then they couldn't be the same. What Descartes was suggesting was that human beings' bodies are separate from their thoughts and that when the body dies the mind still lives, which had undertones of suggesting that there is an afterlife. Descartes called his concept Dualism. ... Descartes' argument for dualism through his Argument...

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Rene Descartes' Argument from Divisibility is the argument in which he claims that the mind and the body are two completely different things and thus cannot be identical. ... Descartes believed that if two things do not have identical properties then they couldn't be the same. What Descartes was suggesting was that human beings' bodies are separate from their thoughts and that when the body dies the mind still lives, which had undertones of suggesting that there is an afterlife. Descartes called his concept Dualism. ... Descartes' argument for dualism through his Argu...

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This explanation which Descartes proposes raises yet another question: "How do mind and matter interact?" ... Descartes final position is to claim that God is responsible for these interactions. After Descartes, other theories also came about in effort to answer this classic question. ... It is my opinion, that Descartes answer to the ultimate mind-body question is a valid one. ... It is my belief in God that allows me to accept Descartes solution freely. ...

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As Descartes put it, without the mind the human body would still operate. ... In fact the human mind is equivalent to Descartes" idea of will when he compares it to God. ... Lets take the example of Descartes injured foot. ...

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According to Descartes, the mind and the body can be separated. ... Descartes asserts that the mind and body are separable and infinite by using his method of doubt to show that he could not doubt the existence of his mind. ...

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The idea of sound will be investigated in the following essay. Is there sound in the world and if a tree falls in the forest and there is no body around does it actually make a noise? These ideas will be followed by the theory of colour. Individuals "think" they see colour, so people believe ther...

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