Mind, Body, and Freedom

Zusammenfassung Descartes with his sharp separation of the mental and the physical set the stage for the philosophy of mind for the years to come. Philosopher Patrick T Mackenzie finds in the later writings of Wittgenstein the suggestion that Descartes got off on the wrong foot.

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Patrick T. Mackenzie is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Mackenzie finds in the later writings of Wittgenstein the suggestion that Descartes got off on the wrong foot. Following Wittgenstein's lead, he argues that instead of analyzing our human nature as a composite of mind and body, we should view ourselves as whole persons.