Descartes' Dualist Understanding Of Consciousness And The Body Flashcards
Descartes believed that all human ? had the scope to be interconnected.
Knowledge.
In his earliest works, “? ?”, Descartes suggested that all the matter in the ? was essentially the same.
Le Monde.
Universe.
Descartes had to delay “Le Monde” for ? years after Galileo was ? by the Catholic Church.
4.
Condemned.
Descartes realised our sense can be mistaken, so he decided to adopt a method known as “? ?”.
Hyperbolic doubt.
Descartes started by testing all of his beliefs with ? arguments, questioning how he could be sure that his belief was true.
Scepticism.
Descartes rejected the idea that ? ? can give us certain knowledge of the world, because our ? can be easily mislead.
Sense perception.
Senses.
Descartes adopted a system of ? ? in an attempt to identify what could be known for certain.
Extreme doubt.
Descartes’ point was that we can’t be 100% certain that we’re not being ? about everything.
Deceived.
The “? ?” was the fact that here he was, thinking ? He couldn’t doubt his own existence as a thinker.
First certainty.
Sceptically.
What was Descartes’ famous line?
“I think, therefore I am.”
It seemed for Descartes that the ? and the ? had to be two distinct substances.
Mind.
Body.
Descartes followed the thinking of ?, saying that it’s possible for us to imagine being without out a body, but impossible for us to imagine being without a ?
Augustine.
Mind.
Descartes thought that the ? ? contained air-like “? ?” which controlled imagination, sense perception, bodily movement and memory, calling it the “principle ? of the soul”.
Pineal gland.
Animal spirits.
Seat.
To Descartes, the singularity of the ? ? strongly suggested that it could be the connecting point between the ? person and the ? soul.
Pineal gland.
Material.
Immaterial.
