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Res extensa is one of the two substances described by René Descartes in his Cartesian ontology [1] (often referred to as "radical dualism"), alongside res cogitans.Translated from Latin, "res extensa" means "extended thing" while the latter is described as "a thinking and unextended thing". [2]
Cartesian dualism [ edit ] The formal separation between subject and object in the Western world corresponds to the dualistic framework , in the early modern philosophy of René Descartes , between thought and extension (in common language, mind and matter ).
In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either that mental phenomena are non-physical, [1] or that the mind and body are distinct and separable. [2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, as well as between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem.
In the Netherlands, where Descartes had lived for a long time, Cartesianism was a doctrine popular mainly among university professors and lecturers.In Germany the influence of this doctrine was not relevant and followers of Cartesianism in the German-speaking border regions between these countries (e.g., the iatromathematician Yvo Gaukes from East Frisia) frequently chose to publish their ...
In philosophy, the Cartesian Self, or Cartesian subject, a concept developed by the philosopher René Descartes within his system of mind–body dualism, is the term provided [citation needed] for a separation between mind and body as posited by Descartes.
Dualism (politics), the separation of powers between the cabinet and parliament Dualism in medieval politics, opposition to hierocracy (medieval) Epistemological dualism , the epistemological question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself or merely an internal perceptual copy of that world generated by neural processes ...
Dualism maintains a rigid distinction between the realms of mind and matter. Monism maintains that there is only one kind of stuff, and that mind and matter are both aspects of it. The problem was addressed by pre-Aristotelian philosophers, [14] [15] and was famously addressed by René Descartes in the 17th century, resulting in Cartesian ...
Therefore, while Cartesian dualism paved the way for modern physics, it also held the door open for religious beliefs about the immortality of the soul. [105] Descartes's dualism of mind and matter implied a concept of human beings. A human was, according to Descartes, a composite entity of mind and body.