Abstract

We face a difficult theory of Cartesian philosophy: on the one hand in his metaphysical meditation on the extension to make a distinction between thinking and; the other hand, people who believe in the reality of the soul and body are inseparable. And it is precisely in this predicament which, imagination has an irreplaceable importance. No imagination, thinking of things you can not lead to the object, the object of the things it can not be measured, as fundamental to the rational mind can not be the object of completing a basic understanding of things, it is difficult to produce our passion, our will to difficult to play a role. Imagination is the object of thinking shifts towards the extension of an important intermediate. We face a difficulty of Descartes' theory, on one hand, in the thinking of metaphysics Descartes distinguishes between the thinking and the extension, on the other hand, he insists on the unity of the soul and the body. Just in this difficulty, the imagination has its importance. Without the imagination, the thinking cannot treat with extensive things, without the imagination, it is difficult to cause and control passions. For Descartes, the imagination is a important intermediary between the thinking and the extension