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7 pages in length. Descartes' desire to draw attention to and garner acceptance of his all-encompassing body/mind notion originated at the very foundation of knowledge and rose to the top to absolute knowledge with the initial step being that of his groundbreaking concept of other minds thoroughly developed in Discourse on Method and Meditations. Descartes' attempt to define the notion of other minds brought him in direct contact with ideas that postulated the very essence of spiritual and physical being, inasmuch as the philosopher meticulously contemplated the various pathways an individual must travel to inevitably reach the awareness of how minds do, indeed, exist separate from on another. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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knowledge with the initial step being that of his groundbreaking concept of other minds thoroughly developed in Discourse on Method and Meditations. Descartes (1960) attempt to define the notion
of other minds brought him in direct contact with ideas that postulated the very essence of spiritual and physical being, inasmuch as the philosopher meticulously contemplated the various pathways an
individual must travel to inevitably reach the awareness of how minds do, indeed, exist separate from on another. Spinoza (1997) contended the external
world is the ruling force behind the presence of all beings, believing that there has to be an omnipotent entity responsible for mans entire existence. As such, his conjecture
opposed the Cartesian view by arguing physical and mental realities are but two components of the same perception, with that omnipotent perception being God. One area in which both
Spinoza (1997) and the Cartesian perspective agreed was in regard to the qualitative separateness of extensions and consciousness, however, this is primarily where any similarity ends; Spinoza (1997) did not
support the idea that both entities are "attributes of two finite substances" (Wozniak, 1995), but rather proposed they are of but a single infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or
nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered and postulated as to how he could at last seal the overwhelming gap that existed between thought and action in
the Cartesian viewpoint. It was through his writings that he exercised the possibility of all thought and action being connected; clearly, he held a strong belief in universal infiltration
of ones existence. Quite a solid debate raged between Spinoza (1997) and Cartesian views as to which principle was truly the supreme representational factor of the mind/body existence, finally
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