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  1. thedeviantphilosopher.org › lesson-the-descartesLesson: The Descartes & Princess Elisabeth Correspondence

    What does that mean and how does it help answer Elisabeth’s question? We only know the union obscurely by understanding, even as aided by the imagination; know it better through the senses (or maybe some kind of direct experience of thought moving the body and of the soul feeling what happens to body)–no one doubts that the soul moves the body.

  2. www3.nd.edu › handouts › Elisabeth-on-dualismElisabeth’s criticisms of Descartes’ dualism

    Elisabeth agrees with Descartes that the mind must be able to affect the body; otherwise we would have to deny that, for example, I sometimes perform certain bodily actions because of my desires and intentions. But it is hard to see how this could work on Descartes’ view. When any thing moves, Elisabeth suggests, this movement has to be ...

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  4. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The Soul’s Extension: Elisabeth’s Solution to Descartes’s ...

    Oct 7, 2021 · Abstract. This paper examines and reflects on Princess Elisabeth’s of Bohemia exchange with Descartes concerning the notorious difficulties of his doctrine of human nature as a union of two independent and mutually exclusive substances mind and body. The aim is to situate her questions in the context of the debate Descartes’s doctrine ...

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  5. muse.jhu.edu › article › 14076Princess Elisabeth and the Problem of Mind-Body Interaction

    This paper focuses on Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia’s philosophical views as exhibited in her early correspondence with René Descartes. Elisabeth’s criticisms of Descartes’s interactionism as well as her solution to the problem of mind-body interaction are examined in detail.

  6. www.earlymoderntexts.com › assets › pdfsCorrespondence between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth

    Correspondence René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia 1643–4 Letters written in 1643 and 1664 Elisabeth writes on 6.v.1643: When I heard that you had planned to visit me a few days ago, I was •elated by your kind willingness to share yourself with an ignorant and headstrong person, and •saddened by

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  7. www.laphamsquarterly.org › ghost-and-princessThe Ghost and the Princess | Lapham’s Quarterly

    Anthony Gottlieb is the author of The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy and The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. He is a member of the Lapham’s Quarterly editorial board. The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia—a debate about mind, soul ...

  8. plato.stanford.edu › entries › elisabeth-bohemiaElisabeth, Princess of Bohemia - Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

    Elisabeth, Princess Palatine of Bohemia (1618–1680) is most well-known for her extended correspondence with René Descartes, and indeed these letters constitute what we currently know of her extant philosophical writings.

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