Leibniz, Descartes, and pain
 

Duden 88: "It was only with Leibniz that the Cartesian idea of pain as a message from the body to the consciousness became a part of medical thinking"
> from Barbara Duden's The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1991)

> tagged with #the_past, #philosophy, #consciousness, #suffering

> created October 15, 2026 at 11:07:03 AM


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