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Single Idea 19409
[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism
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Full Idea
The essence of the soul is to represent bodies. ...The soul and the idea of the body do not signify the same thing. For the soul remains one and the same, while the idea of the body perpetually changes as the body itself changes.
Gist of Idea
Soul represents body, but soul remains unchanged, while body continuously changes
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Burcher De Volder [1706], 1699.03.24/04.03)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.161
A Reaction
This seems to rest on the Cartesian Ego, as the essence of mind which does not change. And yet elsewhere he describes the Ego as a mere abstraction from introspected mental life.
The
22 ideas
with the same theme
[mind and matter are two quite different substances]:
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3519
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Man uses his body, so must be separate from it
[Anon (Plat), by Maslin]
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1710
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Emotion involves the body, thinking uses the mind, imagination hovers between them
[Aristotle]
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13307
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If everything can be measured, try measuring the size of a man's soul
[Seneca]
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21809
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Our soul has the same ideal nature as the oldest god, and is honourable above the body
[Plotinus]
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21825
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The soul is outside of all of space, and has no connection to the bodily order
[Plotinus]
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18458
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The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition
[Porphyry]
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22105
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The human intellectual soul is an incorporeal, subsistent principle
[Aquinas]
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24028
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The force by which we know things is spiritual, and quite distinct from the body
[Descartes]
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3608
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I can deny my body and the world, but not my own existence
[Descartes]
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3613
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Reason is universal in its responses, but a physical machine is constrained by its organs
[Descartes]
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2276
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The mind is a non-extended thing which thinks
[Descartes]
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2298
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Mind is not extended, unlike the body
[Descartes]
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3423
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Descartes is a substance AND property dualist
[Descartes, by Kim]
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2303
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The mind is utterly indivisible
[Descartes]
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5011
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There are two ultimate classes of existence: thinking substance and extended substance
[Descartes]
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19409
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Soul represents body, but soul remains unchanged, while body continuously changes
[Leibniz]
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5585
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Soul and body connect physically, or by harmony, or by assistance
[Kant]
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22039
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Geist is distinct from nature, not as a substance, but because of its normativity
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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14802
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Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction
[Peirce]
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2620
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Dualism is a category mistake
[Ryle]
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4069
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Descartes did not think of minds as made of a substance, because they are not divisible
[Crane]
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8289
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The idea that Cartesian souls are made of some ghostly 'immaterial' stuff is quite unwarranted
[Lowe]
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