What is the doctrine of Cartesian dualism?
2006-08-14 15:58:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Cartesian dualism essentially divides the Universe into the material world of the senses and the intellectual world of the mind, and tries to explain how these world interact with each other. It's heavily influenced by Plato's view of reality, where the superior ideal world casts a "shadow" on the inferior material world.
Descartes believed that the true knowledge can only be obtained through intellectual introspection, because the senses can always be doubted. Some people could call him a sceptic, but he believed that truth can be known in principle so he wasn't a radical. He just believed that only the rational approach (hence Rationalism) is useful.
2006-08-14 18:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most generally, the view that reality consists of two disparate parts. In philosophy of mind, the belief that the mental and physical are deeply different in kind: thus the mental is at least not identical with the physical.
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