| | I think that the qualifier "Cartesian" should be tagged onto the use of "dualism" above (for clarity).
My reason is that Descartes introduced the soul-body "split." This screwed things up from Aristotle's wiser position (Aristotle's superior perspective).
Aristotle had noted that you can regard a human in terms of the material (physical body) or in terms of the soul (mind, psyche, etc), but that these 2 ways of existing - as a soul and a body (not a soul IN a body) - cannot be separated, except in an abstract regard, or account, of them.
From the perspective of his virtue ethics, Aristotle would be pro-choice and pro-science (if he were alive today).
Ed
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