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Rene Descartes Research Paper

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Descartes's conception of human nature was even more dualistic of the mind and body. Which are the good and evil. For Descartes, were composed of two entirely different kinds of entities: souls, which were active, intellectual substances, immaterial and immortal; and bodies, which were unthinking, passive mechanisms, spatially extended and temporally finite. Individual humans were to be identified not with their bodies but with their souls, which were able to survive the death of the body. Freud suggested that much of human behavior is controlled by forces outside our awareness and the relationship between a person and society is controlled by primitive urges buried deep within our unconscious. While Descartes wanted his theory of human
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