Rene Descartes

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July 25, 2015

 

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These two fields are where Descartes had the most influence on his peers and philosophers of today. Under metaphysics, Descartes studied the concept of reality and its effect on people’s lives. Descartes was a dualist whose view was that the world consists of two different components. In his conception, the soul, which to him was an entity separate from the body and living in the pituitary gland, might or might not be aware of the body, but when awareness did occur, there was a sensation of the body affecting the mind...
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In his conception, the soul, which to him was an entity separate from the body and living in the pituitary gland, might or might not be aware of the body, but when awareness did occur, there was a sensation of the body affecting the mind. Descartes called this Cartesian interactionist dualism. Mind could affect the body by means of the soul initiating an involuntary action...
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