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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   BODY AND INDIVIDUALITY IN DESCARTES / CORPS ET INDIVIDUALITE CHEZ DESCARTES.

Authors:  LEHEL MARKÓ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The particular body has no similarities with the substance of the spirit; he is radically different: he has his own nature, his autonomy inside the human. This difference is fundamental for the constitution of the human person. She is founding -through the redefinition of the concept of passion- the independence of the spirit, the moral neutrality of the body (the body has no responsibility, he is not a source of sin), and the moral integrity of the person (morality has a single source: the control of the himself, not the control of the body with the principles of the reason). Nevertheless, the particular human body, qua unified with a soul, became himself a homogeneous individual, changing meaning and as well, in a way, changing substance. Thereby, the body becomes identical with the person; he is the expression of the self.

Keywords: dualism, body, body-mind union, person, individuality 		 
         
     
         
         
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