What is Descartes view of the self?
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Descartes is a famous philosopher, known best for his sceptical method, which he tried to use to find out and prove that God must exist.
Unfortunately, the part of his method that has proved most popular and been adopted henceforth was the sceptical method, rather than the fact that this supposedly proved the existence of God.
Descartes had much influence on the future including for instance Cartesian co-ordinates.
With regard the self, he believed in something called the transcendent agent.
If that's not any clearer, it means essentially that the self is not a natural (physical) entity but rather some other entity (hence transcendent).
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