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Re-Humanizing Descartes
Simmons, Alison
Simmons, Alison
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2011-07-31
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Descartes’ mind-body dualism and his quest for objective knowledge can appear de-humanizing. My aim in this paper is to re-humanize Descartes. When we take a closer look at what Descartes actually says about human beings, it casts his entire thought in a much different light.