Minna Koivuniemi and Edwin Curley
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198748717
- eISBN:
- 9780191814112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198748717.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
What does the mind–body union consist in for Descartes? At a minimum, causal interaction between mind and body. But also in a certain experience of the body with which we’re united, which inclines us ...
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What does the mind–body union consist in for Descartes? At a minimum, causal interaction between mind and body. But also in a certain experience of the body with which we’re united, which inclines us to locate bodily sensations as occurring in it, not in the mind. Hence, we mistakenly identify ourselves with that body. The phenomenology of mind–body interaction, also manifested in the mind’s control of the body, explains Descartes’ doctrine that the whole of the mind is united with the whole body. The chapter takes the principal alternative interpretation to be the view developed by Paul Hoffman that Descartes accepted the scholastic theory that the soul is the substantial form of the body. It argues that Hoffman’s view misunderstands the texts, and fails to appreciate how untenable Pomoponnazi’s treatise On the Immortality of the Soul had made an Aristotelian interpretation of the mind–body relation.Less
What does the mind–body union consist in for Descartes? At a minimum, causal interaction between mind and body. But also in a certain experience of the body with which we’re united, which inclines us to locate bodily sensations as occurring in it, not in the mind. Hence, we mistakenly identify ourselves with that body. The phenomenology of mind–body interaction, also manifested in the mind’s control of the body, explains Descartes’ doctrine that the whole of the mind is united with the whole body. The chapter takes the principal alternative interpretation to be the view developed by Paul Hoffman that Descartes accepted the scholastic theory that the soul is the substantial form of the body. It argues that Hoffman’s view misunderstands the texts, and fails to appreciate how untenable Pomoponnazi’s treatise On the Immortality of the Soul had made an Aristotelian interpretation of the mind–body relation.
David F. Crew
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195053111
- eISBN:
- 9780199854479
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195053111.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter goes inside the Weimar welfare offices by exploring the identities and interests of the major players of the Hamburg's Welfare System. The Hamburg's Welfare System provided social ...
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This chapter goes inside the Weimar welfare offices by exploring the identities and interests of the major players of the Hamburg's Welfare System. The Hamburg's Welfare System provided social services that went beyond the minimum prescribed by national welfare regulations. It developed specialized areas of welfare. It was headed by Social Democratic political appointees, Paul Hoffman, Paul Neumann, and Oskar Martini. Other personnel came from existing public and private welfare agencies of the Hamburg administration. However, the Weimar welfare systems had a gendered boundary line between female and male as female social workers worked in the field while male administrative officials worked inside welfare offices. The welfare system after the war appointed or nominated volunteers as it needed more professional social workers and welfare officials than were employed. Thus, there was a new need for training as only five out of twenty people were competent so the welfare offices needed to train the voluntary workers.Less
This chapter goes inside the Weimar welfare offices by exploring the identities and interests of the major players of the Hamburg's Welfare System. The Hamburg's Welfare System provided social services that went beyond the minimum prescribed by national welfare regulations. It developed specialized areas of welfare. It was headed by Social Democratic political appointees, Paul Hoffman, Paul Neumann, and Oskar Martini. Other personnel came from existing public and private welfare agencies of the Hamburg administration. However, the Weimar welfare systems had a gendered boundary line between female and male as female social workers worked in the field while male administrative officials worked inside welfare offices. The welfare system after the war appointed or nominated volunteers as it needed more professional social workers and welfare officials than were employed. Thus, there was a new need for training as only five out of twenty people were competent so the welfare offices needed to train the voluntary workers.
