![]() Sartre refuses and argues against this thinking of being as that which is composed of two completely different and opposed realms. This ability or inability to doubt allows Descartes to assume that the mind and the body are two different things. ![]() According to Descartes, one can doubt whether one has a body or not, but one cannot doubt whether one has a mind or not. That is, they cannot be compared to one another. Our world is an imperfect copy of the perfect world of Forms.Īnother form of dualism can be found in the philosophy of Descartes, where he argues that the mind and the matter cannot be thought, approached, considered, or measured comparatively. The difference, for Plato, between these two copies of the world is the degree of their perfection. Plato, for instance, says and argues that the world, in which we live, is a copy of the world of Forms. “Being in-itself” as a response to dualismĭualism assumes that there are two different and opposed realms that constitute our reality. In this short article, what Sartre means by “being in-itself” is briefly introduced and explained. In Being and Nothingness, Sartre refuses any dualistic thinking of the world, and introduces what he calls “being in-itself” and “being for-itself”. ![]()
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