Essay --

Descartes philosophy of mind in terms of immaterialism is closely associated with Dualism. His proposition is that mind and body are non identical, or can be rephrased as, mental phenomena are non-physical. Descartes whole grammatical construction of philosophy is presented by the way of Dualism to some extent. He distinctly divides the world into several(prenominal) entities of different nature and characters, each of which is independent. So in terms of mind-body relationship, he proposes the mind-body dichotomy. But when he has anatomized the major difference between the two, he had to get spikelet to it because he is bothered with the explanation of the synergy and interaction between mind and body. So he is facing with the major confrontation between the dualism and the mind-body synergy in my way of interpretation. Dualism is tenacious and flexible because it is not running counter to peoples intuition mind and body are different. This is the most common flavor towards the mind-and-body issue, which is something we take for granted. In our daily lives, the difference between the state of mind and state of material is obvious First of all, subject of material occupies space it takes up space and is presented dimensionally. The subject of mind is invisible and therefore does not take up space. Second, attributes of mind are different from those of material. For example, when pain is inflicted upon our body, we can only heart it but according to neurologists account theres nothing in our nerves that is found identical to the characteristics of pain. Third, the cognitive characteristics that we have for fellowship are different. Put it this way, perception towards material is public, or say, e very(prenominal) individual who has certain intact body structure ... ...perceive and to think, we need to have a BODY to carry the thinking and perceiving activity. Subject matter are more transparent and clear than object matter. For example, we see, we touch, we imagine wax so we come to the expiry that wax does exit the subject matter that carries these activity are self-explanatory. To put it in a nutshell, Cogito ergo sum is the starting point of the whole structure of Descartes philosophy. But it is the epitaph of his universal doubt. Cogito ergo sum is not pure immaterialism. Rather its pure theory of perception. It is fallible to conclude that Descartes is immaterial it is very vulnerable and susceptible to attack, because the immaterialism is derived from Descartes whole body structure of his philosophy. While in light of I think, (therefore) I exist, it is not pure immaterial or material to say the least.