What Am I? Descartes’s Various Ways of Considering the Self
In the ;Meditations' and related texts from the early 1640s, Descartes argues that the self can be correctly considered as either a mind or a human being, and that the self’s properties vary accordingly. For example, the self is simple considered as a mind, whereas the self is composite conside...
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2020-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Modern Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | https://jmphil.org/articles/30 |