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Descartes
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 481–489 (2010)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Efficient and Final Causation Descartes' Account of Mental Causation References.
René Descartes ‐ theory of action, range of action by freeing concept of efficient causation from that of final causation efficient and final causation ‐ Thomas Aquinas, most prominent among Descartes' scholastic – Aristotelian predecessors second argument, amount to a rejection of final causes ‐ common understanding of that notion Descartes, rejecting natural inclinations and appetites ‐ in physical world because they presuppose understanding Cartesian theory of motion ‐ thesis, bodies in motion striving to preserve same state of travelling in a straight line Descartes'account of mental causation pairing problem, Humean conception of causation Aristotelian conception, action of agent ‐ passion in the patient, coming paired
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