A propósito de mundus est fabula: Descartes y la confección del mundo

Abstract

René Descartes’s philosophy has been considered by “philosophical modernity” as a watershed in the evolution of philosophy seen as a “historical entity”. This is because it implies a “re-creation” of “science” where science establishes itself as the reading (and writing) of the “world” which is driven by that “human impulse” is seen as the unmoved judge of knowledge: doubt. But this doubt gives a character of finiteness and limitation to knowledge acquired through natural light, that is, through the ability to compare and distinguish what is in accordance with the explicit or implicit assumptions that condition its action. Thus, given that certainty only makes sense in and for natural light, the “world” that is constructed in the science of Descartes will remain limited to natural light and this science to the fable in which it is told.