Descartes and the Educational Memory of the Error

Authors

  • Anita Gramigna Department of Humanistic Studies University of Ferrara
  • Carlo Rosa IISUE Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/6011

Keywords:

Cartesio, Francisco Varela, Fernando Flores, Antonio Damasio

Abstract

 This essay starts from a significant temporal coincidence: the critique of Descartes. In 1994, Francisco Varela and Fernando Flores, develop an educational project for Chile of the new millennium, which finds its raison d'etre from the crisis of the Cartesian Space: a society historically built on a rational, continuative, reassuring and universal order, methodologically certain in its foundations. In the same year, Antonio Damasio published his work with the aim of highlighting the error of Descartes: the dualism that rigidly separated the res cogitans from the res extensa, and underestimated the role of emotions and feelings in the construction of human thought. These are very different works in terms of intent, but both are interesting for their innovative research perspective. Our epistemological purpose consists in a not prejudicial defence of Descartes; and in insisting on the need to safeguard the memory of previous knowledge, without which no criticism would be possible, and neither the evolution of the current scientific thought.

 

 

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Author Biography

Carlo Rosa, IISUE Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

IISUE

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Published

2019-01-31

Issue

Vol. 6 (2019): RTH - Education & Philosophy. Educational Neuroscience, Theater-Reading and University Immersive Education

Section

Brain Education Cognition

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