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Describe and critically evaluate the arguments that Descartes gives in the Sixth Meditation for a real distinction between mind and body.
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PHIL1000 Assignment 1 Describe and critically evaluate the arguments that Descartes gives in the Sixth Meditation for a real distinction between mind and body. Author: Robert True s361704 Ph: 07 3842 6953 \ 0404 816 646 Word Length: 1612 Words Due Date: Extension Granted In his Sixth and Final meditation on First Philosophy, the French philosopher René Descartes presents his theory of mind \ body dualism. This final treatise provides the reasoning necessary to discriminate between these two spheres of existence, and the resulting theory, complex and muddled as one might expect has remained heavily contested without resolution, by schools of philosophy ever since. Indeed Descartes himself, despite devoting much of his final work The Passions of the Soul to the resolution of the contentions he had raised, never truly settles his own argument. Through a series of arguments Descartes attempts to explicate the very real distinction between the mind and the body, and it is...
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