PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Divisor

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 110
• Professor: Colanter

Document Summary

For descartes, there are three kinds of objects or substances in the universe: 2) god"s creation in terms of mind; and. 3) god"s creation in terms of matter. We may thus easily have two clear and distinct notions or ideas, the one of created substance which thinks, and the other of corporeal substances, provided we carefully separate all the attributes of thought from those of extension. For all these sensations of hunger, thirst, pain are in truth none other than certain confused modes of thought which are produced by the union and apparent intermingling of mind and body . [there] is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible. For when i consider the mind myself inasmuch as i am only a thinking thing, i cannot distinguish in myself any parts, but apprehend myself to be clearly one and entire .