Descartes' epistolary legacy: diagnosis — "betrayal" of rationalism

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Sententiae Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI:10.31649/sent05.01.003

Olga Gomilko

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Abstract

The possibility of a new interpretation of Descartes is determined by his epistolary legacy and scientific texts. The author analyses Descartes' correspondence with Princess Elizabeth, in particular the concept of substantial union, which does not fit into the «conventional» paradigm of understanding Descartes as a dualist and mechanist. The article is partly based on the work of Daniel Garber. The author focuses on two aspects. Firstly, the refusal of interpretation of the mind-body interaction in terms of the law of conservation. Secondly, ontological characteristics are assigned to this interaction. These aspects, in the author's opinion, are the basis for postulation the virtue of Cartesian thinking. After all, it not only breaks with the rationalism of the time, realising its limits and dead ends, but also lays the foundations for the concept of corporeality developed later in the phenomenological tradition.

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笛卡尔的书信遗产：诊断--理性主义的 "背叛"

笛卡尔的书信遗产和科学文本决定了对笛卡尔进行新诠释的可能性。作者分析了笛卡尔与伊丽莎白公主的通信，尤其是实质性结合的概念，这一概念并不符合将笛卡尔理解为二元论者和机械论者的 "传统 "范式。文章部分内容基于丹尼尔-加伯（Daniel Garber）的研究成果。作者重点论述了两个方面。首先，拒绝用守恒定律解释身心互动。第二，赋予这种互动以本体论特征。在作者看来，这些方面是假设笛卡尔思维美德的基础。毕竟，它不仅打破了当时的理性主义，认识到其局限性和死胡同，而且为后来在现象学传统中发展起来的肉体概念奠定了基础。

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Sententiae Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

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期刊介绍： Sententiae is historico-philosophical open access journal. Journal created by Modern philosophy''s research group (Pascalian society). Founded in 2000. Published twice a year, in June and December. Our purpose is to foster the development of a wide gamut of contemporary approaches, active implementation of them into research practice, and establishment of high standards of teaching philosophy basing on the achievements of contemporary history of philosophy. Our key priority is to ensure the empirical substantiation of historico-philosophical conceptions, basing on the criteria of literality, exhaustivity, contextuality and taking into account the existing speculative interpretations. Jean-Luc Marion was the first to formulate this set of criteria in 1998 as the main features of contemporary researches of Descartes''s philosophy. We regard these principles as the methodological background of any substantiated research method in the history of philosophy. Publishing materials on all historico-philosophical topics, we pay special attention to researches in terminology, issues of philosophical translation and untranslatability, manuscript researches (including handwritten heritage of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors of ХVІІ–ХVІІІ century), and cover the development of large-scale projects in this area. We also publish new bilingual and commented Ukrainian translations of classical foreign philosophical texts. Among our priorities there is also a coverage of the history of philosophical thought in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries and its relations to the wider cultural context (theology, literature, natural sciences, political ideology etc). The content of each issue is distributed according to Genre Sections and Thematic Headings. Currently there are 10 Genre Sections.

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