MDSB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Michel De Montaigne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Nagel
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I know that i exist because i can think. Thinking offers the ability to directly observe and thus engage the world. Used in the past to deny humans of their humanity and thinking beings. What it means to think has been defined in various ways over time. For all tame animals there is an advantage in being under human control, as this secures their survival. And as regards the relationship between male and female, the former is naturally superior, the latter inferior, the former rules and the latter is subject. By analogy, the same must necessarily apply to mankind as a whole. Mechanistic; corporeal; an earthen machine (treatise of man) Sensations of hunger, thirst, pain, pleasure, anger, fear, and so on are due to the material and mechanical functioning of the body. Bodily sensations transmitted via nerves to the brain. Mind senses, imagines, remembers, doubts, thinks abstractly, and wills freely.
