ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I lay out some of what I believe to be promising lines of reasoning for understanding both humans and God as minds in the Cartesian sense. I seek to motivate a case in favour of Cartesianism as a foundation for constructive theological anthropology. To this end, I advance a version of the knowledge argument that favours Cartesian substance dualism according to which persons are at their core metaphysically simple souls (i.e. minds), which have some kind of relationship to their bodies. But, the precise relationship of the soul to the body will be taken up in forthcoming chapters.
