THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTION AND THE TWOFOLD MEANING OF EXISTENCE IN DESCARTES

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TABATABAEI MOHAMMAD TAGHI

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Journal: FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY) Year:2016 | Volume:44 | Issue:1 Page(s): 73-90

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THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTION AND THE TWOFOLD MEANING OF EXISTENCE IN DESCARTES

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REAL DISTINCTIONQ1

MODAL DISTINCTIONQ1

CONCEPTUAL DISTINCTIONQ1

FORMAL DISTINCTIONQ1

Abstract

Before Descartes, middle age philosophers like Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Duns Scotus (1266-1308), and Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) used to discuss the distinction between essence and existence in three ways (of course, Ibn-Sina was the first who made this distinction to rehabilitate Aristotelian philosophy in the Islamic heritage). Descartes was aware of that, but discussed it according to the relation between mind and body. Yet, he told us many times that he was used to separate essence from existence in metaphysical issues. The objective of this paper is first to rephrase his untold opinion about the relation between essence and existence on the basis of his conception of the problem of distinction according to mind and body, and second, to disclose that Descartes's conception of existence is twofold. At the end, it is claimed that his twofold notion of existence and his inability to overcome it, is the principal factor in his failure to explicate everything according to first principles, and so in his failure to defeat skepticism.

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TABATABAEI, MOHAMMAD TAGHI. (2016). THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTION AND THE TWOFOLD MEANING OF EXISTENCE IN DESCARTES. FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY), 44(1), 73-90. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/93755/en

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TABATABAEI MOHAMMAD TAGHI. THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTION AND THE TWOFOLD MEANING OF EXISTENCE IN DESCARTES. FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY)[Internet]. 2016;44(1):73-90. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/93755/en

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MOHAMMAD TAGHI TABATABAEI, “THE PROBLEM OF DISTINCTION AND THE TWOFOLD MEANING OF EXISTENCE IN DESCARTES,” FALSAFEH (THE IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY), vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 73–90, 2016, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/93755/en

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