A experiência do ser humano cartesiano

Authors

  • Juliana da Silveira Pinheiro UFMG

Keywords:

Descartes, human being, passions, understanding

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting the Cartesian idea of a human being as an entity to be felt, instead of clearly thought. From this point of view, the testimony of what we are is given by passions, not by pure understanding. Cartesian dualism – the thesis that a human being is constituted of body and mind, both distinct substances – leads us to think of man as a composite of two incompatible things. However, sense experience reveals us a human being, whose mind and body are united and interact, as a substantial unity. Although the notion of union between mind and body is hardly understood in the face of Descartes"™ dualism, it is everyday experienced. In practical life, the Cartesian human being is more an experience of what we feel, than of what we clearly think to be.

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Author Biography

Juliana da Silveira Pinheiro, UFMG

Doutoranda em Filosofia na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), com mestrado em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).

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Published

2020-05-08

How to Cite

PINHEIRO, Juliana da Silveira. A experiência do ser humano cartesiano. Trilhas Filosóficas, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. 50–64, 2020. Disponível em: https://homologacaoperiodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/RTF/article/view/1771. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.

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