%0 Journal Article
%T Los esc¨¦pticos modernos y la g¨¦nesis del cogito cartesiano
%A Fernando Bahr
%J Revista Latinoamericana de Filosof¨ªa
%D 2010
%I Centro de Investigaciones Filos¨®ficas
%X En su respuesta a las objeciones que el jesuita Bourdin dirigiera a las Meditaciones metaf¨ªsicas, Descartes dej¨® en claro que los esc¨¦pticos a los que se propon¨ªa refutar formaban parte de una "secta" en crecimiento y atea, esto es, un peligro filos¨®fico y pol¨ªtico vigente. La alusi¨®n apuntaba seguramente al "libertinismo erudito", cuyo representante esc¨¦ptico m¨¢s destacado fue Fran ois de La Mothe Le Vayer. Para ratificar esta pertenencia de la metaf¨ªsica cartesiana a un debate donde se entend¨ªa que las bases mismas de la convivencia social estaban en juego, en este art¨ªculo presentamos algunos de los di¨¢logos escritos por Le Vayer y luego comparamos esa versi¨®n del escepticismo con la que Descartes ofrece en las Meditaciones algunos a os despu¨¦s. In his reply to father Bourdin's objections to the Metaphysical Meditations, Descartes made clear that the skeptics he wanted to refute were part of a growing and atheistical sect, id est, a philosophical and political danger. It is quite sure that "erudite libertinism" was the "sect" pointed out in this allusion, a movement who had in La Mothe Le Vayer its best skeptical member. In order to confirm that Cartesian metaphysics belongs to that debate where it was supposed that the very foundations of social life were defied, some dialogues of Le Vayer are presented in this paper. Our purpose is to compare Le Vayer's skepticism with the scepticism that Descartes offers in his Meditations ten years later.
%K Escepticismo
%K Libertinismo erudito
%K Duda
%K Incredulidad
%K Certeza
%K Skepticism
%K Erudite libertinism
%K Doubt
%K Disbelief
%K Certainty
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