THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN RES COGITANS (THINKING THING) AND RES EXTENSA (EXTENDED THING)

Number: 2 June 1, 2008
  • Hülya Yaldır
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THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN RES COGITANS (THINKING THING) AND RES EXTENSA (EXTENDED THING)

Abstract

At the beginning of modern philosophy in the seventeenth century, Descartes established his own metaphysical system strongly on the basis of the existence of God. In his Project, God is an all-knowing, omnipotent, benevolent, non-deceiving and perfect being. However, besides this foundation the philosopher wished to supply an explanation which fundamentally depended on mechanical and mathematical principles. For, all natural phenomenon in the physical world were to be apprehended by appealing to the attributes of matter (length, breadth, depth), which were claimed to be ‘quantity’ and the subject matter of pure mathematics. On the other hand, mental phenomena, Descartes claimed, have a special and different status. For the real component of a human being is the mind, that is, the conscious, thinking self and each person has a simple, transparent and immediate awareness of his own nature. Hence, according to Descartes, mental phenomena do not have any room in the quantifiable world of physics. In the sixth Meditation Descartes arrives at the real asymetry between ‘thinking thing’ and ‘extended thing’ by using at least three different arguments. In this article, after a brief chronological survey of the passages where Descartes develops the hypothesis of the real contradistinction between ‘thinking thing’ and ‘extended thing’ or the thesis that man is a being composed of two substances with diverse natures, I shall try to expose some problematic aspects of the theory.

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Hülya Yaldır This is me

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June 1, 2008

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June 1, 2008

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Year 2008 Number: 2

APA
Yaldır, H. (2008). Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2, 149-166. https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS
AMA
1.Yaldır H. Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri. PAUSBED. 2008;(2):149-166. https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS
Chicago
Yaldır, Hülya. 2008. “Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) Ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, nos. 2: 149-66. https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS.
EndNote
Yaldır H (June 1, 2008) Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 2 149–166.
IEEE
[1]H. Yaldır, “Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri”, PAUSBED, no. 2, pp. 149–166, June 2008, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS
ISNAD
Yaldır, Hülya. “Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) Ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2 (June 1, 2008): 149-166. https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS.
JAMA
1.Yaldır H. Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri. PAUSBED. 2008;:149–166.
MLA
Yaldır, Hülya. “Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) Ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 149-66, https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS.
Vancouver
1.Hülya Yaldır. Res Cogitans (Düşünen Şey) ve Res Extensa (Uzamlı Şey) Arasındaki Asimetri. PAUSBED [Internet]. 2008 Jun. 1;(2):149-66. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA78YK36DS

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