DANCEST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Natural Theology, Bodymind, Animism
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= descartes identified the soul as being divine and independent of everything else. Dualism is the view of the mind-body relation according to which the mind is immaterial and completely independent of the body. Descartes was convinced that the soul had an innate knowledge, which could be recovered on the basis of reasoning (rationalism) = a worldview according to which everything in the material universe can be understood as a complicated machine. Descartes (similar to plato) believed that god created a self- perpetuating machine, so that he did not have to look continuously after his creation. It replaced the aristotelian (similar to galileo) model, his views centered on the purposes of things within the universe (the final cause) and on that fact that living things were driven by the souls. = what are your experiences (color, odor, taste, sound and tactile properties) = what is the real world (size, shape, motion, rest, number)
