Question: "Descartes ’ dualist theory of Mind and Body has difficulty explaining how the two interact. What is the problem? Explain and evaluate Descartes ’ attempts to overcome it." Introduction René Descartes (1596-1650) is known as the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Cartesian Dualism" although he was also an outstanding mathematician and scientist for his time. Influenced by notable Western philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle‚ who maintained that man ’s intelligence could not
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Plato- The Theory of Forms Plato (ca.428-ca.347 B.C.E) Socrates Pupil‚ born during the Peloponnesian wars he reaped the benefits of Golden Age and insecurities of the post-war era. Established the first Philosophy school‚ the Academy Wrote dozens of treatises using Socrates dialogue and many of them were actual conversations and others fiction. It’s hard to distinguish his from Socrates since the later wrote nothing. Plato most famous treatise “the Republic”. It asks two questions: “What is
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must acquire it) through observation and reasoning through faith. Different views exhibit on how knowledge is achieved. One may say through common sense and observation‚ while another may say through teachers and peers. According to the philosopher Plato in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave‚ “Certain professors of education must be wrong when they say that they can put knowledge into the soul which was not there before‚ like sight into blindness. The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already;
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Socrates is shocked to learn that Euthyphro is prosecuting his own father. Euthyphro defends his actions‚ believing that it is just to do so even though his acquaintances maintain that “it is impious for a son to prosecute his father for murder” (Plato‚ 8). Quickly‚ Socrates gets to the heart of the matter. Euthyphro is positive in his belief‚ therefore Socrates asks him directly: “what is the pious‚ and what the impious?” (9). Euthyphro’s first definition of piety is simple: “the pious is to do
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Ben Stone Philosophy Final 12/14/15 1. Descartes’ Method of Doubt basically means to doubt absolutely everything that one could not be absolutely certain of. He has this method because you have all these thoughts in your head that you doubt and are not completely certain about and since you doubt all these things you also doubt your existence but since you doubt your existence‚ this means you have consciousness and actually do exist. Your beliefs are all connected in a foundation of knowledge and
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morals that are directly controversy to the other. He titles these two morals as the “slave morality” and the “noble morality.” In On the Genealogy of Morals‚ Nietzsche claims that when you have noble morality‚ slave morality quickly follows as a form of “ressentiment‚” his spelling of the word resentment. Therefore‚ according to Nietzsche‚ when there is a noble morality‚ which he describes as “The capacity for and duty of long drawn-out gratitude and revenge – both within the peer-group only –‚
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Descartes thought that he needed to subject everything he believed to the slightest possible doubt in order for him to find that one thing he could be definite of and that would therefore be revealed as something solid and certain. Descartes also noted that everything he believed has been acquired from the senses or by means of the senses but has learned that it is deceiving. He supposes then that however things can be felt‚ tasted‚ seen‚ smelled‚ heard or in short sensed‚ there is always a slight
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Christianity’s Origin Christianity as antiquity.-- When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This‚ for a jew‚ crucified two thousand years ago‚ who said he was God’s son? The proof of such a claim is lacking. Certainly the Christian religion is an antiquity projected into our times from remote prehistory; and the fact that the claim is believed - whereas one is otherwise so strict in examining pretensions - is perhaps the most ancient
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Clay Chastain PHIL 3320 Dr. Combs 24 October 2007 On the Crito In Plato’s Crito‚ Crito attempts to persuade Socrates to flee from his death sentence. However‚ Crito fails because Socrates presents a counter argument which invalidates much of Crito’s original pleas. Despite this‚ a fallacy of justice may have been created. Even so‚ the Republic’s conception of justice seems to have little impact on Socrates’ existing ideas on justice. The first argument presented is the fact that the majority
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Foucault and Nietzsche share similar genealogies regarding the relationship of body and power in “modern” humans. However‚ Foucault adapted Nietzsche’s concepts as stepping-stones for different genealogical theories. Largely in regard as to how moderns were made through the training and discipline of bodies. According to Foucault‚ the individual is a modern concept‚ that whose origin‚ or genealogy was constructed from institutions power. For Nietzsche‚ the individual is an effect of social relationships
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