The Descartes's infirmitas mentis

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Guillermo Malavassi

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Descartes started what has been well called the pars destruens. There is no doubt that there are things and ways of thinking and political structures and systems ... that deserve to be forgotten, that are worthy of destruction. Our century has had the misfortune to see the rise of communist, fascist and Nazi totalitarianisms; but above all he has had the great fortune to see his thunderous fall, two by force and the communist by the weight of his own mistakes. But the desire to rise up against all knowledge, against all convictions, against all traditions ... because nothing deserves approval or assent and almost no respect, what it carries, in its heart, is a rebellion, an attitude Iconoclast, perhaps funny, would see in another or enjoy it with rejoicing because it seems fun to throw the achievements of others to the ground, but it carries implicit, such an attitude, its own death. It does not represent any wisdom.

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MalavassiG. (2020). The Descartes’s infirmitas mentis. Acta Académica, 19(Noviembre), 169-171. Retrieved from http://201.196.25.14/index.php/actas/article/view/688
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Acta Filosófica