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Paperback What Am I?: Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem Book

ISBN: 0195177193

ISBN13: 9780195177190

What Am I?: Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

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In his Meditations, Ren Descartes asks, "what am I?" His initial answer is "a man." But he soon discards it: "But what is a man? Shall I say 'a rational animal'? No: for then I should inquire what an animal is, what rationality is, and in this way one question would lead down the slope to harder ones." Instead of understanding what a man is, Descartes shifts to two new questions: "What is Mind?" and "What is Body?" These questions develop into Descartes's...

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