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    Cartesian Dualism

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    CARTESIAN DUALISM Rene Descartes‚ a sixteenth century philosopher and mathematician‚ attempted to address the issue of how the mind and body interact which subsequently proposed the theory of Cartesian Dualism. According to Descartes‚ Cartesian Dualism is the belief that mental states are states of an immaterial substance that interacts with the body. He articulates and supports this theory by using the conceivability argument which states that if one can conceive themselves

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    Descartes Dualism

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    To begin with‚ this essay will look at both Descartes understanding of the mind and body and whether or not the reasons for the mind and body being distinct are plausible. It will look at the various arguments and understandings in defence of dualism as well as look at its flaws to then come to a conclusion on whether Descartes does in fact give good reasons for believing that the mind could exist without the body. Firstly‚ Descartes’ ‘method of doubt’ attempts to ‘defeat the sceptic’ in his beliefs

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    Against Dualism

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    Thomas Nagel is correct to argue that‚ ‘dualism....is usually adopted on the grounds that it must be true‚ and rejected on the grounds that it can’t be.’ Such a seemingly paradoxical statement‚ which exists within what I will call the ontological common-senseness of the human experience‚ represents my position with regard to dualism‚ as will be argued within this essay. Acknowledging but notwithstanding the natural attraction to some sort of dualism‚ I will i) state that my case rests on two

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    Substance Dualism

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    century‚ French philosopher‚ Rene Descartes‚ proposed a revolutionary explanation of the notion that there is a separate‚ yet causal relationship between the mind and the body. Descartes created the school of philosophical thought known as substance dualism in which he methodologically elucidates his argument that there are only two fundamental entities in the world‚ that being mental and physical things. In his philosophical treatise‚ Meditations‚ Descartes challenges the Monist materialistic belief

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    Neuroscience and Dualism

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    Why has the gap between science and the spirit become so broadened? Why have we escaped the desire to explain natural phenomenon on a spiritual stage? Further‚ what is it that would make one take a comprehension of neuroscience and turn that knowledge into a device used to disprove the existence of a soul? What if neuroscience is the natural but spiritual structure of what makes human consciousness possible? Can that be disproved? For me the answer is no and the linkage between these two ideas

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    Dualism In Gilgamesh

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    There is a dualism in the text “Gilgamesh”. This text is an epic story of great loved followed by grief which ends in a great change in character. This epic story’s main character‚ Gilgamesh‚ is the person who is feared‚ respected and a person who hates and loves. But Enkidu made drastic change in Gilgamesh’s life. Before Enkidu came into Gilgamesh’s life‚ Gilgamesh was really a strong person and he was even called two thirds god. He boasted about his victories and other achievements. But‚ the first

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    Dualism In Religion

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    people go to heaven‚ not animals. In reality‚ a person’s body does not go to heaven however their soul is the one that makes a place next to Christ for the rest of eternity. In many cultures and religions today “Body and soul are recognized as a dualism and their values contrasted: ‘Fear ye not them that kill the body . . . but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell’” (Soul). This could be because many cultures are not evolved or knowledgeable enough to understand the wonders

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    Dualism Vs Monism

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    up with the term to try and eliminate confusion between the body and they mind. The two modern types of monism are idealism and materialism. However‚ there is also something called neutral monism which is kind of like an in between of monism and dualism. It means that all things are not matter or mental‚ but neutral. Monism is also used in many religions across the world. For example‚ Hinduism and some branches of Christianity both believe that the gods or god creates all of reality. They believe

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    Substance dualism contends that there are two substances‚ which are separate from each other. When I say‚ “separate from each other”‚ I mean that‚ individually‚ they are able to exist or function without one another. On the contrary‚ property dualism contends that‚ instead of there being two different substances‚ there is only one substance (the physical substance)‚ and within that physical substance‚ there are two different properties (a physical property‚ and the mental or non-physical property)

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    Augustine Dualism

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    At thirty Augustine is a professor of liberal arts in Rome and soon wins the appointment of Public Orator in Milan‚ the imperial capital. In Milan he meets the bishop of Milan‚ Ambrose‚ and at the age of thirty three Augustine is baptized and converted to Catholic Christianity. Ambrose played a significant role in the development of Augustine‚ by introducing him to the neo-Platonists philosophy‚ as well as a more gratifying method of interpreting scripture. The neo-platonic philosophy emphasized

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