Descartes had distinguished sensation from mere imagination by his apparent lack of control over the production of ideas of sensation and their superior intensity. <a href=”http://hume.ucdavis.edu/mattey/phi001/desclec.htm “> 1994 Lecture Notes: […]
DESCARTES VS. ARISTOTLE ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΨΥΧΗΣ Στον Ντεκάρτ, αντίθετα από τον Αριστοτέλη, όπου υπάρχουν τρία είδη ψυχών (διανοητική, θρεπτική, αισθητική), η ψυχή είναι μόνο διανοητική. Η ζωή είναι […]
Thomas Hobbes:Leviathan1651 Overview: Leviathan is short on physiological detail as to the inner-workings of the mind, but Hobbes’ ideas provide the conceptual background for the major schools of thinking about […]
Knowing that the existence of such objects is possible, Descartes then turns to the prevalence of mental images as proof. To do this, he draws a distinction between imagination and […]
Hobbes studied the scholastic philosophy at Oxford and was eight years older than Descartes. Hobbes went to Paris many times, got acquainted with Gassendi and Mersenne and Descartes. Hobbes was […]
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