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What Am I? Descartes’s Various Ways of Considering the SelfJournal of Modern Philosophy 2 (1): 2. 2020.In the _Meditations_ and related texts from the early 1640s, Descartes argues that the self can be correctly considered as either a mind or a human being, and that the self’s properties vary accordingly. For example, the self is simple considered as a mind, whereas the self is composite considered as a human being. Someone might object that it is unclear how merely considering the self in different ways blocks the conclusion that a single subject of predication—the self—is both simple and compos…Read more
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René Descartes |
Nicolas Malebranche |
Margaret Cavendish |
17th/18th Century French Philosophy |
Color |
The Self |
The Body |
Bodily Experience |