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     • René Descartes’s concept of the self revolves around the idea of mind-body dualism. For Descartes, a human person is composed of two parts, namely, a material body and a non-material mind.
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   How did René Descartes influence philosophy?

   • 1. Dualism and materialism The French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) has had a profound and lasting impact on philosophical views of the self and its knowledge of the world. The ideas that are responsible for that impact can be found in the short, and highly readable, book Meditations on the First Philosophy.

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   What does Descartes say about the essential self?

   • Following directly in their footsteps, Descartes declares that the essential self —the self as thinking entity —is radically different than the self as physical body. The thinking self —or soul—is a nonmaterial, immortal, conscious being, independent of the physical laws of the universe.

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   What does Descartes think of a human person?

   • For Descartes, a human person is composed of two parts, namely, a material body and a non-material mind. It must be noted that Descartes’s idea of the “mind” is not different from the idea of the “soul” understood in antiquity, for instance, Plato’s concept of the soul.

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   Why did Descartes say the mind is the real self?

   • This is because for Descartes, the mental states, such as thinking, imagining, and analyzing, rather than the physical states of the body, such as pain, hunger, and thirst, are fundamental to our life as persons. In other words, for Descartes, it is the mind that makes us humans. Thus, for Descartes, the “mind” is the “real self”.

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   May 16, 2022 · René Descartes’s concept of the self revolves around the idea of mind-body dualism. For Descartes, a human person is composed of two parts, namely, a material body and a non-material mind. It must be noted that Descartes’s idea of the “mind” is not different from the idea of the “soul” understood in antiquity, for instance,

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   Following directly in their footsteps, Descartes declares that the essential self—the self as thinking entity—is radically different than the self as physical body. The thinking self —or soul—is a nonmaterial, immortal, conscious being, independent of the physical laws of the universe.

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6. plato.stanford.edu › entries › self-knowledgeKnowledge of the Self - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   He concurs with Descartes and Hume that we never directly apprehend the self (this fact is what he calls “the systematic elusiveness of the ‘I’”). And while he holds that we cannot avoid thinking of ourselves as persisting, unitary beings, he attributes this self-conception to necessary requirements for thought which do not directly ...

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   Jul 13, 2017 · A central topic throughout the history of philosophy—and increasingly so since the seventeenth century—the phenomena surrounding self-consciousness prompt a variety of fundamental philosophical and scientific questions, including its relation to consciousness; its semantic and epistemic features; its realisation in both conceptual and non-concep...

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   Dec 3, 2008 · René Descartes (1596–1650) was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or “natural philosopher” second, and a metaphysician third.

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10. iep.utm.edu › descartes-mind-body-distinction-dualismDescartes, Rene: Mind-Body Distinction | Internet ...

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    Learn how Descartes argues that mind and body are really distinct substances that could exist without each other, and what this implies for his philosophy of religion and science. Explore the problems and responses to the mind-body interaction and union, and the sources and motivations of Descartes' dualism.

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    A chapter from an introduction to the philosophy of mind that explains Descartes' dualism and his argument for the existence of God. It also discusses the impact and the criticisms of Descartes' view of the self and the world.