Cartesian humanist and post-humanist motives
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Descartes, humanism, post-humanism, human subject, machineAbstract
The main purpose of this article is to offer a framework for a possible interpretation of some humanist and post-humanist motives in Descartes’ thought. According to this, the article wants to show, appealing to textual evidence, how Cartesian philosophy started a questioning on the status of “the human”, questioning that allows us to reconsider the harsh judgment we make about the anthropocentric and rationalist character of his philosophy. However, we would like to show also the limits this questioning had, and how many of Descartes’ ideas derived indeed into problematic phenomena that many contemporary philosophers, reasonably, denounce.
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2019-06-15
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Schoof Alvarez, C. (2019). Cartesian humanist and post-humanist motives. Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 1(12), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.69967/07194773.v1i12.121
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