…theory obviously is related to the old Platonic and Cartesian theories. but is considerably more subtle, say, than the Cartesian theory. Descartes postulated the relationship of mind and matter in a much too limited way. He spoke of mind as being something…

…striking phrase which sums up this whole idea. In the writings of this curious romantic German philosopher von Bader, who says that Descartes was entirely wrong in saying, cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. But what he ought to have said was cogitor…

…the universe around us. And in point of fact, most of us, I suppose, are still influenced unconsciously by the hypothesis of Descartes about the nature of man and its relation to the world. Descartes insisted that the world was divided into two halves,…

…I suppose, are still influenced unconsciously by the hypothesis of Descartes about the nature of man and its relation to the world. Descartes insisted that the world was divided into two halves, one half matter and the other half mind. and that the man…

…own body, and of course through the body with other pieces of matter. And also the essence of this mental substance, Descartes insisted, was consciousness. Well, we now know that we've rejected the idea that the essence of the mind is consciousness. But…

…who is able to employ his reason, who looks before and after. And this I has been defined in its essential form by Descartes as the creature who thinks, the cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. And more recently, beginning with the Maine de Biron…

…we? What sort of creature is this human being? Are we, for example, a soul imprisoned within a body? Are we, as Descartes says, a completely individualized ego whose essence is consciousness and who is related only to one part of matter within the body…

…and Plato, we get a the beginnings of this dualism which then becomes systematized and made scientific very late on by Descartes which has haunted Christian thought ever since you get the rise of this distinction between mind and body and the sense…

…of thought the new kind of thinking which is adumbrated by Bacon and is comes to a kind of perfection in Galileo and Descartes and Newton and Leibniz and which forms the which is the invisible technical basis of modern science plus at the same time a…

…cannot achieve can be lengthened almost indefinitely. Even such a thing as thought probably doesn't really belong to me. If you remember, Descartes held it up as the primary certainty, the phrase, I think, therefore I am. But if you look at this carefully,…