Geulincx

[ Flemish gœ-lingks ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Whereas Descartes made the union between them a violent collocation, Geulincx practically called it a miracle.

Once more God intervenes to solve the difficulty, but after a fashion much less crude than the miraculous apparatus of Geulincx.

According to Geulincx neither the soul works immediately upon the body, nor the body immediately upon the soul.

While Descartes called the union of mind and matter a conjunction through power, Geulincx named it a miracle.

We see from this that Geulincx has carried to its limit the dualistic basis of Descartes.

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