So as well as opening up dualism of mind and body Descartes and his contemporaries open up a dualism between the world as it is for us (sometimes called the ‘manifest image’)—the coloured, warm, smelly, noisy, comfortable, familiar world—and the world as it is objectively or absolutely (the ‘scientific image’)—the world that contains nothing but physical particles and forces spread out across the boundless spaces of the cosmos.
