Ontological Dualism and Gnoseological Monism in the Regulae ad directionem ingenii of R. Descartes
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.43.2019.21942Keywords:
Descartes, Regulae ad directionem ingenii, ontological dualism, gnoseological monism, subjective turn.Abstract
In this paper we will analyze how a first moment of the Cartesian subjective turn occurs based on the need to give a unitary (ie, monist) response on the level of knowledge to an irreducibly dualistic ontological reality; that is, how to conceive a gnoseological monism based on an ontological dualism. To this end, we will analyze how Descartes’ mathesis universalis expresses the original project of the Regulae and establishes the general conditions for its interpretation. Then, we will see how this mathesis, understood as an epistemic requirement has as a gnoseological correlate, a psychology in which perception and the cognitive faculty make up an integral mechanism that can be ontologically distinguished in body/mind. Finally, we will analyze how this ontological dualism conceals a true gnoseological monism in which all reality is reduced to a cognitive dimension in which corporality takes on the role of "ideal corporality".
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