Giá trị xây dựng này là mối quan hệ giữa máy và cơ thể không phải là để được hiểu về một tương tự đơn giản. Descartes nhìn thấy chúng là như nhau. | 30 Of Jews and Animals to the working of the body and the body s relation to the soul namely animal spirits . In The Principles of Philosophy Descartes makes the important claim that I do not recognize any difference between machines made by artisans and the diverse bodies composed by nature on its The value of this formulation is that the relationship between the machine and the body is not to be understood in terms of a simple analogy. Descartes sees them as the same. Moreover it is that very sameness that allows as much for a mechanics as it does a science of the body. Were there to be intimations of a Cartesian materialism - and the complications that such a materialism would then introduce - then they are located in this identification of machine and body. Descartes pursues the question of the body throughout his writings. In the Treatise on Man for example he is able to suppose that the body is nothing other than a statue or a machine made of earth .12 Much later in The Passions of the Soul while distinguishing between the body and the soul and in accounting for the death of the body and thus the challenge that death poses for the distinction between the soul and the body he is able to write of the body that death never occurs through the absence of the soul but only because one of the principle parts of the body decays. And let us recognize that the difference between the body of a living man and that of a dead man is just like the difference between one the one hand a watch or other automaton that is a self moving machine when it is wound up and contains in itself the corporeal principle of the movements for which it is deigned together with everything else required or its operation and on the other hand the same watch or machine when it is broken and the principle of its movement ceases to be For Descartes two elements have to be noted. The first is that the body is always given in opposition to the soul. However secondly at work within .
