Once completed our study of the philosopher Plato, continue our work, preparing an update (project required for access to evidence PAU) of the philosopher René Descartes who lived during the seventeenth century.
The issue that concerns us, and then explain, is about the context and time in which he lived our French philosopher, is necessary to emphasize that in the XVII century were conditioned by the repression of Catholics organizations the Inquisition, whose influence was at countries such as the reformed religion established Catholicism. Below is faced as René Descartes to the problem, and as the facts of other philosophers as happened when Galileo Galilei did you have to migrate to other countries to develop without undue hindrance theory. The featured item below is that of Descartes and freedom.
The issue that concerns us, and then explain, is about the context and time in which he lived our French philosopher, is necessary to emphasize that in the XVII century were conditioned by the repression of Catholics organizations the Inquisition, whose influence was at countries such as the reformed religion established Catholicism. Below is faced as René Descartes to the problem, and as the facts of other philosophers as happened when Galileo Galilei did you have to migrate to other countries to develop without undue hindrance theory. The featured item below is that of Descartes and freedom.
start mentioning the problem of freedom of expression and thought of the time. As mentioned earlier, centuries in which lived the philosopher born in The Hague were those in which there was the so-called scientific revolution that would change in disciplines such as cosmology (demonstration of the heliocentric theory of Copernicus's hands, however to escape the burning had to adjure his theory and admit that he lied). The scientific method was also subject to review and change this time. Focusing Descartes that he learned of the condemnation of Galileo when he was about to publish what would be the first part of his work preface, The Discourse on Method. This resulted to delay the publication of this and he emigrated to Holland to continue his research with relative ease and theory (the other reason he moved was that the fame he had obtained in France made him a familiar character , which prevented him from developing his research with peace of mind.)
We superficially mentioned the role of the Inquisition more in the following lines from a few examples of its actions at the time that made the Catholic countries (most countries of western and southern Europe) and we verbigracia the example of the Italian Galileo Galilei and how he had to give up their investigations. This statement was conveyed by a statement by the countries of Italy, France, Germany, Spain, among others, which lead to Descartes to renounce publication of his work ng Mundo, among others. Similar case was that of Copernicus with their works and research that earned him also some serious problems with l a Catholic Church.
The other fundamental aspect of the concept of freedom is the one shown below: the freedom of man must be noted that until the time the dominant model was one where the man was made in the image and likeness of God and our work in mortality would be offset with the Day of Judgement where our souls would be judged by our actions (design and variant platoniana Myth winged chariot, Phaedrus). René Descartes made his investigations in full swing anthropocentric, and yet to be Catholic, God relegated to the background to focus their investigations in man. Thus, in contrast to classical Greece in which humans were seen as animals, exclusively anthropocentric a differentiation between men as a unique and beasts, which can not make use of reason, as mentioned in the first part of Le Méthode Speech.
Descartes is clear that the difference between be free or not, is clearly influenced by our ingenuity and ability to differentiate between true and false. Thus, defends the existence of innate faculties related to the reason (common model for rational thought). Our freedom will be marked by the development of our sense, as we explained in the first paragraph of Part I of his work prologue.
peroratio conclusion as all this, we wish to emphasize the importance of these thoughts about freedom and, indeed, taking into account the turbulent century that was published and studied about it. We would also like to include a quotation from Descartes, despite being anthropocentric left a "pearl" like this: "They say that the monkey is smart enough to not speak to that do not work." However, some people it's better to shut them appear not monkeys. In these times, monkeys "still seem so irrational beings as we all think?
