PHIL 2 - DESCARTES - PART 2

End of Meditation 1. Major point-->you should take beliefs gathered through your senses as certain, foundational beliefs

• TRUE

• FALSE

Central question underlying Meditation 2: pick the right answer

• what can be enjoyed?

• what is necessarily pleasant?

• What cannot be doubted?

• what can't be loved?

Descartes compare himself to

• Aristotle

• Pythagoras

• Thales of Miletus

• Archimedes

Cogito ergo sum, sive existo is the latin formulation of one of Descartes' most famous arguments

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The purpose or goal of the Cogito argument is to demonstrate that Descartes

• is a divine entity, God-like

• is a physical thing that cannot think

• is a thinking think, that can think

• a non physical thing that cannot think

Throught the cogito argument Descartes introduces the distinction between

• ethos, logos, and pathos

• res cogitans and res extensa

• episteme, phronesis, and techne

• eros and thanatos

a thinking thing (res extensa)is a thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses; images and perceives

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• FALSE

SUBSTANCE DUALISM states that there are two sorts of substances: the mental and the physical and they do interact

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• FALSE

Characteristic of the res cogitans...pick the wrong answer

• subject to mechanical laws

• not extended in space

• none of the above

• extended in time

the problem of interaction was raised by

• Malebranche

• Elisabeth of Boemia and Pierre Gassendi

• Marsilio Ficino

• Gianbattista Vico