Does the division between mind and matter expressed by Plato and Descartes define traditional societies as it does our own?

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Does the division between mind and matter expressed by Plato and Descartes define traditional societies as it does our own?

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In traditional societies, everything must meet the test of lived experience. What has enabled our technological society to produce ideas that are “true in theory but not in practice”? Does the division between mind and matter expressed by Plato and Descartes define traditional societies as it does our own?