Dualist theories of reality

Dear philosophers,
We are about to finish the unit of metaphysics and Gnoseology but we must take a look at the dualist theories of reality first.
Plato's theory was based on the world of Ideas (metaphysics and reason) and for Aristotle the world of senses became the only reality for him. Whereas Plato was considered a poet and a mythologist, Aristotle was considered the first great biologist. This last one was worried about nature changes and he devoted his life to explain why these changes happened. Aristotle refused Plato's theory of Ideas on the following way. He agreed with Plato that nature and all objects flow, he disagreed on the contrary on the fact that there would be a form or idea existing independently. So, what it actually exists is an object or a reality that embraces the physical part and the idea existing on the same being. To sum up, that the physical and the immaterial part are the same. This theory is named hylomorphic theory.
Descartes was considered the father of Modern Western Philosophy. On his meditations on first Philosophy he developed his dualist view of reality. He claimed that the reality was made of three substances, two of them immaterial and the third one material. Immaterial: infinite substance (God) and spiritual substance (Soul). Material: material physical substance (Body). He claimed that the human being is the only being in nature that has his dualist compositions.



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