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A noção de "minha natureza" nas "Meditações Metafísicas" de Descartes: sobre um eu-prático no cartesianismo
The concept of "my nature" in Descartes Metaphysical Meditations: regarding a practical-self in cartesianism
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Abstract What is the status of the concept of "my nature" in Descartes' Metaphysical Meditations? That is the inquiry of this article. In order to answer it, the present study is divided into two moments. In the first part of the work, I intend to investigate the concept of "my nature" as it appears speciall... view more
What is the status of the concept of "my nature" in Descartes' Metaphysical Meditations? That is the inquiry of this article. In order to answer it, the present study is divided into two moments. In the first part of the work, I intend to investigate the concept of "my nature" as it appears specially in the first two meditations, namely, as the nature of the common sense; which needs to be overcome in order to give rise to a theory of knowledge accordingly to the natural light of reason. In the second part of the work, notably through the analysis of the sixth meditation, I try to elucidate that, despite its impertinence to a theory of knowledge, the notion of "my nature" is, conversely, the fundamental building bloc of a Cartesian practical philosophy. And this, however, entails some cost for Cartesian metaphysics in general. Surely, Descartes' theory of knowledge is wholly based on a priori elements (i.e., necessity, universality and innatism); but his practical philosophy, in turn, and this is the point to be stressed, since founded on the mixture of reason and senses, must be constructed almost entirely in a contingent and experimental soil.... view less
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Descartes; My nature; Sixth meditation
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 106-117
Journal
Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 20 (2020) 1
ISSN
2178-1036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed