Body and Soul

Descartes is commonly held responsable for our problematic distinction between the res cogitans and the res extensa, and maybe in some derived sense, for the distinction between form and content as well.

An interesting problem arises when viewing things like the CGU Descartes Web Project.

I find reading Les Passions de L'Ame (The Passions of the Soul) very difficult when it is presented to us in this way. The irony of reading Descarte's texts on-line is that there really is no physical form anymore, and here the separation of form and content disintegrates into a monade from webdesign hell.

Posted by mduvekot at June 11, 2004 10:50 PM