Descartes & Aristotle: Psychology

Name Professor Course Date Descartes & Aristotle Aristotle held the belief that man is a rational animal, there was a tendency to see animals as species that lacks rationality. In his observation, he describes human as the rational animal hence he confirms that there are no other species is rational. To Aristotle rationality is what makes man different from other animals. Descartes would reject this Aristotelian psychology to go to his more scientific notion where he claims that the body is controlled by a spiritual, immortal soul and mind. Descartes claims that the soul operates through the pineal gland that is placed in the brain cavity and it is principally present in. Descartes would then argue on how the soul and body do act to each other by ...