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The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

Lennon, Thomas M.
Stainton, Robert J.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, Book 7

PhilosophySports General

ISBN10: 1402068921
ISBN13: 9781402068928
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 8 2008
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul. This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness. In Kant's illustration, the unity had by our perception of a verse cannot be accounted for if the words of the verse are distributed among parts thought to compose the mind. The argument, or at least the unity of consciousness that underpins it, has a history extending from Plato to the present. Moreover, many philosophers have extended the argument, some of them using to argue such views as immortality.

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