Essay Question # 2: Discuss: ‘Nature teaches me by these feelings of pain, hunger and so on, that I am not only lodge in my body like a pilot in his ship, but that I am very closely joined to it’. Does Descartes succeed in showing that he is essentially a mind?
Answer the indicative questions
* What is Descartes’ concept of substance?
* What is Cartesian Dualism?
* Is it tenable? (defendable; can it maintain)
* Should we embrace the distinction between the mind and the body?
* Can Descartes explain how an unextended indivisible mind casually interacts with a physical body?
* What are Descartes’ arguments in favor of the claim that the mind and the body are utterly distinct substances?
* Are his arguments sound?
Julian (Sales)
20 minutes ago
https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/descartes
this is the website for the readings as well. Mediations 2 and 5 are critical to the paper
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