Conatus: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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consistent in terms of our splits in the world. Plato’s, Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s ideas are all dualist, as noted above, but they do not really fit into either substance or property dualism.

One further type of dualism, which we’ve touched on above, is the dualism of mind and matter that began more or less with Descartes. We observed above that this is now defined as a form of substance dualism, with consciousness regarded as a separate substance from matter. This split, it could safely be said, is even more radical than the ones delivered by universals and by the ideas of Plato, Kant and Schopenhauer. It is to this other major form of dualism that we now turn.

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