Cartesian scientific paradigm. Tutorial

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Vadim Shmal. Cartesian scientific paradigm. Tutorial

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Treatise on Man

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One of the reasons Descartes is called the father of modern philosophy is because he set the agenda for those philosophers who came after him. Over the centuries, many thinkers have tried to interpret Descartes’ methods for their own purposes. This influence continues today.

Some philosophical problems will be familiar to people – say, the problem of knowledge or the problem of free will. The key question, however, is how to present these problems in a radically different way from Descartes’s in order to accommodate a philosophy of subjectivity that goes beyond the traditional concept of man as a thing that can be known.

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Descartes suggested that the mind has the following characteristics:

the soul (consciousness) is divided into two parts: the intellect (besides the higher thought) and the body;

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