PHIL 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unconscious Mind, Self-Concept
9 Jan 2017
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Descartes is worried he proved too much with the existence of god: his argument now overrides his previous logic, how is error or ignorance possible if a perfect god created the world. Possibility for evil: allows for greater good, more good around, people can know the difference when something is good, autonomous lifestyle. Knowledge: self - identity, thoughts/thinking are active, perceptions/perceptual judgement are active, feelings and passive, pain is mental, because it is the felt experience of the mind. it is not physical. Dualism: essentially a thinking thing because i cannot think of myself without thinking, but i can think of myself without a body. This must mean that mind and body are distinct. Counter: imaging lying in a coffin dead, you are imagining yourself without life and not existing. Could you be so embodied that you could not think without a body: bodily things occupy space, but mental things do not take up space.
