Essay: Descartes’ Doctrine

Sample Essay

Descartes’ doctrine of the difference entity between the body and mind has an implication to understanding of the human person. Given that human body and mind is separate, Descartes suggests that the two are interconnected.

The argument put forward, is that it’s that faculties of imagination and feeling cannot be conceived apart from the body, meaning that mind cannot be operational without the intelligent substance in which they reside. While at the same time faculties like change of position can only be conceived as being attached to corporeal substance, thus, this follows that there is an active faculty capable of forming and producing ideas within a human person. But this active faculty resides in some substance different from the body.

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