For example, God is not formally an extended thing but solely a thinking thing; however, he is eminently the extended universe in that it exists in him in a higher form, and accordingly he has the ability to cause its existence. Therefore, an empty space cannot exist between two or more bodies.Descartes’ close assimilation of body and space, his rejection of the vacuum, and some textual issues have lead many to infer an asymmetry in his metaphysics of thinking and extended things. I am basically thinking, the latter referring to everything that is in us so that we immediately perceive for ourselves– And the activity of the mind and consciousness characterize me: consciousness is the essence of thought.The second truth is discovered by Descartes existence of God. a phenomenon caused in the soul by the action of the body resulting from this action.– Passions are for Descartes, all affective phenomena: love, hate, ambition, desire, emotions, …– Descartes also studied the physiology of the passions, representations relating to the movement of animal spirits, subtle elements circulating throughout the body and having a function as intermediaries between the soul and body.The-Philosophy helps high-school & university students but also curious people on human sciences to quench their thirst for knowledge.The site thus covers the main philosophical traditions, from the Presocratic to the contemporary philosophers, while trying to bring a philosophical reading to the cultural field in general, such as cinema, literature, politics or music.Since 2008, The-Philosophy.com acts for the diffusion of the philosophical thoughts.Independent from any institution or philosophical thought, the site is maintained by a team of former students in human sciences, now professors or journalists. But the extension constituting this wax remains the same and permits the judgment that the body with the modes existing in it after being moved by the fire is the same body as before even though all of its sensible qualities have changed. Although this account goes contrary to the (more correct) observation made by William Harvey, an Englishman who published a book on the circulation of the blood in 1628, Descartes argues that his explanation has the force of geometrical demonstration.

The error occurs when my will (infinite) assent to an idea (confused) of the understanding. It is characterized by the absence of external constraint.It is this human freedom that allows us to understand the mechanism of error, which arises from the disproportion between my volontéentendement necessarily finite and limited.

Much of the rest of parts 2 and 3 of the The main thrust of the first maxim is to live a moderate and sensible life while his previously held beliefs have been discarded due to their uncertainty. Accordingly, the physiology and biology of human bodies, considered without regard for those functions requiring the soul to operate, should be conducted in the same way as the physiology and biology of animal bodies, namely via the application of the geometrical method to the configuration and motion of parts.Descartes maintains further that all sensations depend on the nerves, which extend from the brain to the body’s extremities in the form of tiny fibers encased by tube-like membranes. She gave, indeed, too much importance to the principle of authority, and it does not, in fact, a truly rational approach.– The reason, ability to distinguish right from wrong, expired allotted to all.– From this “common sense”, the best thing in the world shared (sometimes called natural light by Descartes), which must make wise use, by developing a method or a path, a road allowing reach the truth.The method is rational, in these conditions, consisting of a set of rules, whose application leads with certainty to the result.To discover the truth, leave aside the chance to proceed only in an orderly fashion.