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A 4 page overview of Descartes’ presentation of the cogito or “thinking thing” and the duality of mind and body which results. Details Descartes’ justification of the cogito and his explanation as to how it, separated from the world and its other beings, might nevertheless communicate reasonably with other minds and meaningfully relate to these and other corporealities of “extension”. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Descartes discourse on the relation of the human body and mind is, in fact, integrally connected to his tendency to doubt. Descartes maintained,
for example, that synthetic judgments could be absolutely certain and that we could use radical doubt to thoroughly test knowledge and allow it to serve as a new indubitable basis
for science. Descartes recognizes that his beliefs are indeed subject to a certain degree of uncertainty. He recognizes that belief does not always equate with fact. Establishing
this connection is made even more important to Descartes by his underlying need to connect the existence of God, an existence integrally connected with the separation of mind and body
which the Steps attempt to establish. Consequently, Descartes has presented a number of philosophical problems, among the most interesting of course is the mind-body problem, which have captivated the
minds of philosophers for generations. Descartes view on the distinction of the human mind and body, the view that the body is a separate entity from the mind is,
of course, at the center of the mind-body problem. Descartes provided specific steps though which he justifies his belief that while he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete
entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is composed of two separate parts, the body and the mind. Descartes discourse on
this matter is immersed in his characteristic skepticism which seeks to differentiate belief from truth, his "Method of Doubt". Utilizing the same premises delineated in his "Method of Doubt"
Descartes seeks to resolve the question of whether his beliefs on the separation of body and mind are indeed just beliefs or whether there is indeed such a separation.
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