Rene Descartes

In other words, is what is known as modernity, m man and time of the present as opposed to the old and dismantled. The new against the old, was the era in which men began to settle in the known ancient versus modern diatribe. The founding epistemological coup had dealt what Galileo Galilei (1,564-1642) m with its new changer science of Aristotelian lies, made that led to the thinkers to conclude that the world had lived under the deception of for centuries (beyond even the same Aristotle), rehearsing a conception of life and scientific based on miscalculation of the senses. Do do of such sense of what was lost or wrong, under the limited exploratory capability of the senses? to not speculate?, participating Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who in his philosophical discipline dedicate to think a method that does not miss its purpose of giving with the truth, or in his subsequent generation of certain knowledge. In meditations systematizes philosophically discards its considerations on the new method of finding truths; as also cares about Bacon (new body of science) by minimizing the human mistake to criticize the logic and Aristotelian method, and bequeath it to posterity, specifically, your alerts about the prejudices of man as pervertidores factors in reality. Such (Galilei, Descartes and Bacon), with their positions and jobs, are the creators of modernity, as they are known. Now, we can already ask against what danger for methodical doubt Descartes prevents. The text in question is understood about the connotation of the historical moment that played live and the consequent philosophical anguish generated in his person, who sees alibi the possibility of reaching the certainty in knowledge, more so if the impediments encyst in human nature itself, in the sweet illusions of the senses (as he says) and in the cultural context of the man (the old beliefs), towards where the man is pulled up voluntarily with such do not face the difficulties of darkness that implies putting to question the established.

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