Descartes and 'The Aristotelians' on the Soul as the Life of the Body | Prof. Sarah Byers
The Thomistic Institute
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The Fallacy of the Straw Man
The core idea of self-motion is just the metabolic process, which is a qualitative change. So what does this tell us about poor Descartes? Poor Descartes is probably doing the best he can to argue against the Aristotelians,. But he's got a fundamental misunderstanding about the meaning of the word motion in Aristotle.
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