Philosophy / Unit 6 Philosophy 0225 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Substance Dualism
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The idea
Substance dualism: mind and body are two different kinds of thing—an immaterial thinking substance and a physical extended one.
In practice
Descartes' argument from the cogito: I can doubt my body exists, never my thinking—so the thinker, he concluded, is not the body.
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