Dualism Essay

The purpose of this essay is to discuss how dualism describes reality more accurate than materialism, idealism, and transcendental idealism. Even though dualism doesn’t describe reality one hundred percent just like the other theories about the nature of reality, it is the most accurate argument out of the four major theories about the nature of reality and substance. Dualism was a concept that was not originated by Rene Descartes but coined by him. The concept was that our mind is more than just our brain. The concept was not originated by Rene Descartes because the Bible explains that we are more than our body and brains. It teaches that we have a separate mind, soul, and spirit. One argument for dualism is that the physical and mental territories have different properties. The mental events have qualities such as what does it feel like, what does it look like, or what it sounds like. Another argument is the lack of any understanding of how any possible reaction can take place between the mind and brain. The essay will include reasons for favoring the Thomistic and Cartesian forms of substance dualism and the counter arguments that are against them.

Cartesian dualism is a form of dualism which states that there are two kinds of substance which is material and mental. According to Rene Descartes’s philosophy, the material cannot

Arce 2 think and the mental doesn’t have space extension. Thomistic dualism is another form of dualism associated to Thomas Aquinas. He claims that “one’s soul was one’s only substantial form, although one also had numerous accidental forms that accounted for “X’s” unnecessary features.” The arguments of dualism are obtainable in order to prove that the mental state and the mind state are separate ...

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...behavior illness; probably a non-dualist approach might have worries about it. The thomistic dualism would defend the belief of one body to one soul because it allows more warm connection between the soul and the body.

In conclusion, the purpose of the essay was to discuss how dualism describes reality more accurate than materialism, idealism, and transcendental idealism. Substance Dualism doesn’t describe reality one hundred percent just like the other theories about the nature of reality; but, it is the most accurate argument out of the four major theories about the nature of reality and substance. The body and mind discussion has two issues. Is someone poised of matter, or matter and mind? Another one is if it is both of them, then does matter and mind connect if they do. The arguments are fairly strong and makes dualism a better theory than the others.