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Single Idea 24039

[filed under theme 17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism ]

Full Idea

The affections of the soul - spiritedness, fear, pity, confidence, joy, loving, hating - would all seem to involve the body, since at the same time as these the body is affected in a certain way.

Gist of Idea

All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling

Source

Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 403a16)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.4

A Reaction

Aristotle was not a physicalist, but this resembles the pilot-in-the-ship passage in Descartes, accepting the very close links.

Related Ideas

Idea 3616 The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes]

Idea 23981 Rage is inconceivable without bodily responses; so there are no disembodied emotions [James]

The 18 ideas with the same theme [mind and matter mutually affect one another]:

24039 All the emotions seem to involve the body, simultaneously with the feeling [Aristotle]
24056 The soul (or parts of it) is not separable from the body [Aristotle]
5695 Only bodies can touch one another [Lucretius]
6683 The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible [Augustine]
3400 Things must have parts to intermingle [Gassendi]
3616 The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes]
6153 Interaction between mental and physical seems to violate the principle of conservation of energy [Rowlands on Descartes]
3654 The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG]
6553 Descartes discussed the interaction problem, and compared it with gravity [Descartes, by Lycan]
3469 Mind and brain don't interact if they are the same [Searle]
3409 Mental substance causation makes physics incomplete [Kim]
2446 Cartesians consider interaction to be a miracle [Fodor]
2445 Semantics v syntax is the interaction problem all over again [Fodor]
9293 Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann]
3911 The very concept of a substance denies the possibility of mutual interaction and dependence [Scruton]
2409 Maybe dualist interaction is possible at the quantum level? [Chalmers]
2411 Supervenience makes interaction laws possible [Chalmers]
4590 If causation is just regularities in events, the interaction of mind and body is not a special problem [Heil]