ACADEMIC SCEPTICISM IN DESCARTES’ RÈGLES POUR LA DIRECTION DE L’ESPRIT (I, II, III, VIII AND XII)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2023.196135Keywords:
Knowledge, Probability, Assentiment, Wisdom, DoubtAbstract
It seems that some tools from academic scepticism are included on the epistemic precepts in the Règles pour la direction de l’esprit (Amsterdam, 1701). At the second Rule, for example, Carneades’ probabilism can be found as one of the most leading tracks of academic scepticism in the early modern philosophy. There are another topics from this tradition that were used by Descartes on the formulation of his own modern scepticism, such as the definition of science as wisdom (first Rule). In this way, academic scepticism is, paradoxically, one of the allies of the search for Truth (as the fourth Rule shows us). The scope of this paper, hence, is to comprehend how academic scepticism appears on the Règles’ epistemic project, through topics like the search for wisdom, the doubt’s alleviation, the exercice of assentiment by refusing probabilism and the truth of fideism. The academic method’s scope includes these topics, defined by epistemic analysis or recursiviness.
Downloads
References
CHARRON, P. (1981). De la Sagesse. Paris: Fayard.
CICERO, M. T. (2012). Luculo (Academica priora) e Da Antiga à Nova Academia (Academica posteriora). In: Textos Filosóficos. Tradução de J.A Segurado e Campos. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, pp. 93-245.
CURLEY, E. M. (1978). Descartes against the skeptics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
DESCARTES, R. (1953). Œuvres et Lettres. Paris: Librairie Gallimard.
GILSON, E. (1913). La liberté chez Descartes et la théologie. Paris: F. Alcan.
MONTAIGNE, M. (2004). Les Essais. Édition de Pierre Villey. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
PAGANINI, G. (2008). Skepsis. Le débat des modernes sur le scepticisme. Paris: J. Vrin.
POPKIN, R. (2003). The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
RODIS-LEWIS, G. (1995). Descartes: uma Biografia. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record.
SCHMITT, C. B. (1972). Cicero Scepticus: a study of the influence of the Academica in the Renaissance. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS. (1949). Against Professors. London: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library.
WILLIAMS, B. (1983). Descartes's Use of Skepticism. In: Burnyeat (ed). The Skeptical Tradition. Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 337-353.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Marcelo de Oliveira
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Autores que publicam nesta revista concordam com os seguintes termos:
- Autores mantém os direitos autorais e concedem à revista o direito de primeira publicação, com o trabalho simultaneamente licenciado sob a Licença Creative Commons Attribution que permite o compartilhamento do trabalho com reconhecimento da autoria e publicação inicial nesta revista.
- Autores têm autorização para assumir contratos adicionais separadamente, para distribuição não-exclusiva da versão do trabalho publicada nesta revista (ex.: publicar em repositório institucional ou como capítulo de livro), com reconhecimento de autoria e publicação inicial nesta revista.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
b. Authors are authorized to take on additional contracts separately, to non-exclusive distribution of the article published in this journal (ex.: to publish in institutional repository or as part of a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
