The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology: 7 (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind)

by Robert J. Stainton (Editor), Thomas M. Lennon (Editor)

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  2010

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  In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul . This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness.