Dolegui Wilfried Nanfack
PHIL 2101-(ET6) For this paper, I’ll be talking about Descartes’s argument for dualism in the “sixth Meditation” and “multiple personalities”. Descartes, both as a philosopher and scientist, is at two levels of understanding of the real. It’s back to nature in a mechanistic framework to which the body is subjected, and at the same time, it supports a dualism of soul and body in which the soul escapes the body determinations. In his sixth Meditation the author methodically describes the characters that are unique to the soul and the body and raises the contradictions that result from their union. In addition, it plays a fundamental role in the game of passion that bases all of his moral theory. The body is divisible, the mind is indivisible. The soul is not extended, the body occupies space. The soul is immaterial, the body is material. And yet, "the soul is united to all parts of the body together". To account for this phenomenon, Descartes posits the existence of a small gland that lies in the brain, called pineal gland. The latter plays the junction point between the soul and body. It allows the soul to receive …show more content…
Anything that physically affects us will affect us mentally, and vice versa. The brain is the conductor of the body and the mental, that of the mind. When the mind is affected, the brain is too. If the mental is affected, the emotions of the mind will be disturbed. If the brain is affected, the metabolic functions of the body will be too. The brain and mental influence each other; this is why they say “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. Mental activity influences brain activity. Each positive or negative thinking has corresponding effects, positive or negative, with our emotions and then in the body. The body and mind are mutually reflected as in a
PHIL 2101-(ET6) For this paper, I’ll be talking about Descartes’s argument for dualism in the “sixth Meditation” and “multiple personalities”. Descartes, both as a philosopher and scientist, is at two levels of understanding of the real. It’s back to nature in a mechanistic framework to which the body is subjected, and at the same time, it supports a dualism of soul and body in which the soul escapes the body determinations. In his sixth Meditation the author methodically describes the characters that are unique to the soul and the body and raises the contradictions that result from their union. In addition, it plays a fundamental role in the game of passion that bases all of his moral theory. The body is divisible, the mind is indivisible. The soul is not extended, the body occupies space. The soul is immaterial, the body is material. And yet, "the soul is united to all parts of the body together". To account for this phenomenon, Descartes posits the existence of a small gland that lies in the brain, called pineal gland. The latter plays the junction point between the soul and body. It allows the soul to receive …show more content…
Anything that physically affects us will affect us mentally, and vice versa. The brain is the conductor of the body and the mental, that of the mind. When the mind is affected, the brain is too. If the mental is affected, the emotions of the mind will be disturbed. If the brain is affected, the metabolic functions of the body will be too. The brain and mental influence each other; this is why they say “a healthy mind in a healthy body”. Mental activity influences brain activity. Each positive or negative thinking has corresponding effects, positive or negative, with our emotions and then in the body. The body and mind are mutually reflected as in a