1. Gibert Ryle and Rene Descartes' Dualism
Under the anthropological problem we have the problem of Reality, Nature of Reality, Appearance and Reality, Change and Permanence, Space and Time, Causality, Freedom and Determinism and the Mind-Body problem. ... CARTESIAN DUALISM While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of René Descartes, French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. ... He (Descartes) thought that if true knowledge is to be attained then we mu...
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