Anthropologization of Descartes’ basic project in contemporary history of philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent28.01.051Keywords:
anthropology, reductionism, project, freedom, ethics, Self-MasteryAbstract
The author of the paper believes that the unfinished character of Descartes’ philosophical doctrine makes possible underestimation and distorted reception of the basic intention of his meditation concentrated on the problem of human being. This results in spreading the position of technomorphism regarding the doctrine in general and, particularly, the reduction of Des-cartes’ anthropological project to physiology and medicine. Today’s research literature de-monstrates significant shifts in the methodology of the history of philosophy. This makes possible deeper understanding of Descartes’ purpose concerning the creation of a holistic phi-losophical system, which had to be crowned by anthropology, concentrated on the Self-Mastery of human being as a spiritual entity.References
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Heidegger, M. (1993). The Age of the World Picture. [In Russian]. In M. Heidegger, Time and Being (pp. 41-62). Moscow: Respublika.
Heidegger, M. (2007). European Nihilism. [In Russian]. In M. Heidegger. Nietzsche (Vol. І., pp. 27-224). St-Petersburg: Vladimir Dal.
Khoma, O. (2012). Descartes and Pascal: a Way to Philosophy against a Background of «Grand Siècle». [In Ukrainian]. Filosofska Dumka, (6), 19-38.
Marion, J.-L. (2007). Descartes: état de la question. In J.-L. Marion (Ed.), Descartes (pp. 7-22). Paris: Bayard.
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Voss, S. (1994). The End of Anthropology. In J. Cottingham (Ed.), Reason, Will and Sensation (pp. 273-306). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Malivskyi, A. (2013). Anthropologization of Descartes’ basic project in contemporary history of philosophy. Sententiae, 28(1), 51–62. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent28.01.051
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