Descartes

Descartes Rene Descartes and his wax example impacted dualism, while he talked about physical substance. He then used this wax example to provide backing to his other theories, while showing that we live in a dualist world where there is a physical world and a mental world and that although both exist, they do not interact within each other. For the example he said observe a piece of wax as it is fresh from the bee’s hive. Your senses tell you many things just by examining it. The taste is sweet, the odor is sweet like a flower, it has a yellow color, it has a definite figure, it has a definite size, it’s hard, it’s cold, it’s easily handled, and it makes a noise when it is struck upon. Then Descartes takes the wax and heats it, and observes the same properties. The wax is now tasteless, odorless, the color has been altered, the shape has now changed, the size has become greater, it has transformed into a liquid, it is warm, it is hard to handle and it makes no sound when struck upon. He points out that both are wax even though it wax, senses, people, dualism, two, actually, physical, different, descartes, because, things, theory, states, mental, it’s, experiment, definition, both, about, world, tell, state, out, one, now, makes, example, evil, while, view, upon, understanding, though, therefore, sweet