TY - JOUR AU - Simon, József PY - 2022/03/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The complete mind: A Hungarian debate on the nature of body-mind union from 1685 JF - KÜLÖNBSÉG (Difference) JA - Különbség VL - 21 IS - 1 SE - Union de l'âme et du corps dans la philosophie classique DO - 10.14232/kulonbseg.2021.21.1.293 UR - http://www.kulonbsegfolyoirat.hu/index.php/kulonbseg/article/view/293 SP - 145-170 AB - <p>My contribution considers the problem of the real distinction between mind and body and its resulting consequences regarding the unity of human being against the background of a debate on Cartesianism between Hungarian intellectuals of Early Modernity. In his <em>Syllabus</em> (1685), János Pósáházi censured 32 Cartesian assertions and criticized frequently Descartes’ conceivability argument for the real distinction. His criticism involved Descartes’ terminological innovation of introducing the <em>complete</em> ideas besides <em>clear and distinct</em> ones in the Replies as criteria for the argument from conceivability. Pósaházi’s censure was refuted in the same year in a text titled as <em>Vindiciae</em> written by an author whose identity we are not aware of today. The paper presents the anonymous author’s defense of Cartesianism regarding the problem of body-mind relationship.</p> ER -