Ghanaian philosopher who was brought to Europe as a child, earned a doctorate at Halle, and produced original philosophical work on the nature of the human mind and sensation.
Argued that the human mind (soul) is purely active and non-sensing — sensations belong to the body — developing a substance dualism that separated the mind more radically from bodily affections than Descartes did.
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