The Essay on Philosophy - Impacts on The Society

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The following essay will look to discuss on the various perspective of dualism and its
impacts on the society and mind-body relationship. In this view, the concept of dualism has been
of the opinion that both mind and body will act as the different entities in the world. It has been
noted on several aspects that people will definitely create the differences between the mind and
body. This essay will look to give insight on the concept of dualism and how it can cater to the
understanding of the dualism within the society (Campbell: 20). The various philosophical
considerations would be discussed in this essay so the original contexts of dualism could be
understood by the readers. The body is suggested to be the physical aspects of the brain and how
it could be driven by the neurons of the brain’s structure. The deviations between mind and body
will also be shaped in this scenario also (Reynolds: 26).
The philosophical theories have worked on to view this aspect form the theoretical
situations of philosophy. The philosophical descriptions are very crucial to develop the ideas
properly. Therefore, the famous philosophers like Descartes have discussed on this perspective.
Many philosophers have provided their views on the state o dualism in philosophy. Many
opposing views have been found also (Kim: 152). Many philosophers before Descartes have
discussed on this view as well. They believed it would be better to think of body and mind as
different entities. The issues regarding the mind and body have been very relevant till today. The
Meditations on First Philosophy is very crucial to identify the issues regarding the separation of
body and mind (Campbell: 20). The formulation on this issue should be given by the experts of
philosophy and this is definitely the most crucial factor behind the identification of the historical
issues also.
The writings of Descartes in philosophy began at the time when Galileo began to shine in
the field of the natural sciences. Before that, most of the scientific works depended on the works

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of Aristotle who died long ago (Wee: 215). Various teleological arguments had also been
constructed over this issue. Here the scientists’ ad philosophers have agreed on the matter that
the human beings are the material objects. All the human beings are made of weight, solidity and
other factors. According to the views of Descartes, it can be argued that the interactions between
the mind and body will go through two way process (Campbell: 20). Descartes had presented his
arguments by saying that mind will interact with the body through the pineal gland. In the typical
sense of discussion, all the human beings are said to have the body i.e. physical and the mind i.e.
non physical (Huanning: 7).
This is the fact that can be identified as the dualism in this scenario. Some critics have
also argued on the fact that the body and mind have the same entities. This view has been
countered by saying that this factor would not at all be helpful and their roles in the human body
would be the same (Marion: 17). Therefore, it will be meaningless to have similar things in the
body doing almost the same things. This view of philosophy by Descartes has proved that the
body will be controlled by the mind and the body will do the activities that would be dictated by
the mind on various occasions (Campbell: 25). The influence is put through the rational mind
and people could act according to the recognitions made by the body. Thus, most critics and
scholars of philosophy have said that mind and body could share the uni-directional approach
(Garcia: 178).
The context of the natural world should be discussed because Aristotle has focused on
this perspective for various reasons. Various researchers have discussed on the concept of
dualism because it has questioned many conventional issues and the daily works by people also.
The brain is an inseparable part of the body and it works like the hardware of the computer. This
is connected to the body of the human beings and these two parts should always work with each