Mind Body Mindy/Body Separation: Spinoza Essay

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The implications of Spinoza's thinking in light of Descartes' assertions of the mind-body split ultimately come to nothing. If the real distinction between the mind and body exists as Descartes insists it does, then the object of the idea constituting the human mind cannot be the body except through a mistake made in the mind (or in the body) and its thinking process. That is, it is through a misconception of the mind that confuses perception with rational understanding that such a conclusion would be drawn, in Descartes' own experience. Pushing Spinoza's logic to its limits reveals the rectitude of Descartes' own assessment of the real distinction between the thinking mind and the unthinking body. If all thought and experience comes through the body as Spinoza insists, and thus the concept of the mind is truly an understanding of the body, then how can the body come to know itself? That is, would not all information regarding the experience of the body be mediated and limited by the body itself, and thus prone to the errors that bodies are prone to? If this is the case, and the mind is truly of the fallible and self-reflective body, how could anything thought of the mind be trusted? There would be no way to be certain the mind or body exist at all, despite the fact that though exists.

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The mind can know its existence, in Descartes' frameworks, specifically because it is thinking yet un-extended.

In Descartes' model, the distinction between mind and body gives the mind objectivity, Spinoza's model breaks down in making the subjective "known" when the argument itself means this cannot occur......

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