Mind_&_Body

Mind & Body Mind and Body The mind-body problem is perhaps the tested criticism of all of Descartes’ ideas. The mind-body problem is the result of Descartes’ strict rationality and his metaphysical findings. It has haunted modern philosophers since the time of Descartes, and will continue to remain a problem for many years. Even Descartes’ followers realize that the problem is so deeply ingrained into his dualistic philosophy that they attempted to alter his metaphysical scheme to present a more acceptable answer to this problem. Descartes begins his metaphysical quest with doubt. He doubts everything he knows right down to the smallest little detail. All he is then left with is his doubt, which he realizes cannot exist unless he is a thinking think, or the cogito. This is the first thing Descartes proves to be real through reason. Next, Descartes proves the existence of God. He does so through his principles of causality in an effort to overcome solipsism. After his proof of the existence of God, Descartes is left to prove the existence of the physical world. He proves that the physical world exists as the cause of our ideas of it. This all said and done, we are left with three things mind, problem, descartes, body, world, mind-body, metaphysical, between, god, descartes’, through, solve, physical, nature, left, actually, works, way, unextended, substances, sensations, scheme, question, proves, extended, exists, existence, even, dualistic, cogito, cause, being, attempted, very, two