Autor: Viorel Vizureanu

Abstract:

Our paper focuses, from a philosophical standpoint, on a defining phenomenon of modernity which we will call the subordination of God to the human being. It concerns a complex and subtle phenomenon, mainly involuntary, due to the fact that many philosophical strategies were meant to reinforce a declining presence of God in the general framework of human knowledge. Subsequently, we chose to exemplify this kind of approaches through the peculiar place occupied by mathematics in modern philosophy, especially in the 17th century, by making appeal mainly to the works of Descartes, from a perspective which might be called of a Heideggerian inspiration. We will see that even in this narrower context, the aforementioned subordination is not simple or unequivocal, but one that possesses multiple aspects or ways through which it is confirmed. And, of course, speaking in a strictly scientific manner (for the sake of rigor), we have to limit for the time being the conclusions of our interpretation only to the latter (Cartesian) context.

ISSN: 0870-5283; 2183-461X

DOI: http://doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2017_73_2_0717

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Palavras-Chave: constructivism,Descartes,early modern philoso