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Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80): Correspondence with Descartes (1643)1. Elisabeth was born at Heidelberg Castle on 26 December 1618, the eldest daughter of Elisabeth Stuart (the only daughter of James I of England), and Frederick V of Palatine, the exiled ‘Winter King’ of Bohemia. In 1620, Elisabeth’s family lost their fortunes and land ...
20 de ago. de 2013 · Elisabeth, Princess Palatine of Bohemia (1618–1680) is most well-known for her extended correspondence with René Descartes, and indeed these letters constitute what we currently know of her extant philosophical writings.
Correspondence René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia 1643–4 ‘soul’ have little if any theological content and are, nearly always, merely high-flown ways of saying ‘mind’.]. Descartes writes on 21.v.1643: [He starts by praising the Princess’s favour of writing to him. When they have met, he says, he has been so dazzled by
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Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia made contributions to the philosophy of mind, physics, and political philosophy, and was in addition an influential figure in the politics of her time.
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Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Naturalistic Dualist (Cambridge University Press) Frederique Janssen-Lauret. Elisabeth was the first of Descartes' interlocutors to press concerns about mind-body union and interaction, and the only one to receive a detailed reply, unsatisfactory though she found it.
An investigation into discussions about the body and rationality between Elisabeth of Bohemia and Renée Descartes. In her assertion that the body influences the mind, Elisbeth critiques the strict separation between science and politics that Bruno Latour calls the Modern Constitution.
