CARTESIAN ASSUMPTIONS:
THE LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE ASSUMPTIONS USE
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Epistemology Cartesian, infinite, intelligibility, freedom, magnetismusAbstract
This paper addresses to resume the discussion about Cartesian Science through problematization of the Cartesian rationalism limits. Descartes presents a very peculiar conception of scientific knowledge, in order to make wide use of hypotheses to explain natural phenomena and describing emergence of the world. This is one of the main points criticized by the followers of later experimental philosophy. However, it is possible to see that such a procedure is closely linked to the way Descartes understands the limits of human knowledge and its relationship with the guarantor of all truth: God. By carefully analyzing the epistemological assumptions of the Cartesian scientific proposal, it is possible to perceive “moral tension” in its construction that will be decisive for justifying the action of the spirit in search of answers: once defined the limit to human understanding, you can - and should - use all available resources to the spirit to the explanation of the world events. This issue will be discussed in Cartesian assembly work and the detailed examination of the case of magnetismus operated by Descartes in correspondence with Fr. Marin Mersenne.
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