La autosuficiencia de la razón en el Discurso del método de Descartes. Inmunidad del sujeto y renuncia al mundo

• Autor: Palacios Cruz, Víctor Hugo
• Formato: objeto de conferencia
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/193709
• Enlace del recurso: https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/193709; https://doi.org/10.18800/cipher.2020.004
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Descartes; Montaigne; Discurso del método; Racionalismo; Conocimiento; Discourse on the Method; Rationalism; Knowledge; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.03.01

Descartes’ and Montaigne’s solitudes are usually compared. Nevertheless, the second one is the solitude of an I that discovers itself as a work of plurality and harmony with nature; and the first one, conversely, is a demarcation of an individuality influenced by an childhood marked by confinement, caused by both a respiratory disease and a precocious approach to books and the early discovery of the “voice of reason”. According to the Discourse on the Method—written in response to The Essays—, the equality of “reason” in every human, the diversity of authors, teachers and people as a sign of a bad use of intelligence, the divine origin of reason, and the possession of innate ideas conflude to justify the search of a total science within the individual mind. Clinging to the mathematical method, Descartes convinces himself that he does not need either the senses or the other to offset the product of his musings. And he deduces that the work of one alone is more perfect than that in which many hands intervene. All of this enshrines a subjectivity fully stocked for knowing the world without having a world, thus, from being exposed to conflicts and transformations beyond the purity of our “inner light”. Summing up, it is an allegedly immunized rationality that denies the intersubjective and embodied ground of every human existence.