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Spinoza's Solution to the Mind/Body Problem
In what way is our mind different from our body? What relationships exist between the physical world and the mental? These are questions that philosophers have struggled to answer since the time of the ancient Greeks. In his work Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes directly addresses these issues by claiming that the mind and body are distinct from one another. Descartes articulation of the dualist position gave rise to the way philosophers have approached these questions ever since.
The most challenging difficulty facing the dualist is finding an answer to the mind/body problem. In other words, the duelist's dilemma is explaining the connection between the mental and the physical if these two are assumed to be distinct. One solution is offered by Spinoza in IIP7 of his work The Ethics. Since much of Spinoza's work stems straight from Descartes it is difficult to understand on its own. To fully grasp......
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