Explain Descartes’ mind-body dualism. Do you think Descartes successfully resolved mind-body problem? Give reasons to support your answer. 

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Mind and body dualism represents the metaphysical stance that mind and body are two distinct substances, each with a different essential nature. Originated in the ancient period, a well-known version of dualism is credited to Rene Descartes of the 17th century.

mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical,or that the mind and body are distinct and separable.Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, as well as between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem.

Aristotle shared Plato's view of multiple souls and further elaborated a hierarchical arrangement, corresponding to the distinctive functions of plants, animals, and people: a nutritive soul of growth and metabolism that all three share; a perceptive soul of pain, pleasure, and desire that only people and other animals share; and the faculty of reason that is unique to people only. In this view, a soul is the hylomorphic form of a viable organism, wherein each level of the hierarchy formally supervenes upon the substance of the preceding level. For Aristotle, the first two souls, based on the body, perish when the living organism dies, whereas remains an immortal and perpetual intellective part of mind. For Plato, however, the soul was not dependent on the physical body; he believed in metempsychosis, the migration of the soul to a new physical body. It has been considered a form of reductionism by some philosophers, since it enables __ __ __________ _________ ___________ ____________ ____ __________ ________.
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Degree : MASTER DEGREE PROGRAMMES
Course Name : Master of Arts in Philosophy
Course Code : MAPY
Subject Name : Philosophy of Mind
Subject Code : MPYE 14
Year : 2022 2023