Friday, November 11, 2011

Will, Cogito, Dualism

Descartes cannot doubt 'Cogito', which, as has been discussed, means 'I set myself in motion'. Thus, the only corporeality that he can doubt is a representation of body, not any involved in Motility. Similarly, the duality that he establishes is that of Will, the source of Motility, and Representation. Thus, to characterize that duality as Body-Mind entails the problematic classification of Thinking as a non-mental process. In contrast, on the model being developed here, the duality of Will and Representation is that of Material Cause-Formal Cause, with each entailing both a Mental pole and a Corporeal pole.

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