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- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Descartian.
But Idea in its Descartean sense will apply with equal aptness to the thoughts which are traceable to the feelings.
1894 June, John W. Shull, “The Faculty of Language”, in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. […], volume 97, number 6 (whole no. 666), New York, N.Y.: Fowler & Wells Co., […], page 278, column 12 more examples
Another feature that distinguishes James’ self from the Descartean Cogito is the inclusion of the body as part of the (material) self.
1993, Hubert J. M. Hermans, Harry J. G. Kempen, The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement, →ISBN, page 45In history books, ideas like Descartean dualism get presented as inevitable. Their implications are not examined, nor are they rigorously criticized. Descartean thought came along, and it caught on, but the reasons why it caught on are not examined.
2015, Vivienne E. Perkins, Letters to My Son: Meditations on the Gospel of Jesus Christ for a New Christian, WestBow Press, →ISBN, section “The totalitarian nature of the technological world”
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