Rationality in the political thought of René Descartes
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https://doi.org/10.31272/ipj.i64.481Keywords:
rationality، cogito، justice، democracy، political freedoms.Abstract
French philosophy represented a picture of many currents that had a great impact on the history of Western political thought, and therefore this influence extended to represent a line of thinkers who represented a turning point, not even a shift in modern Western political thought, and among these thinkers is René Descartes.
France found its first philosopher and his demand for intellectual clarity and precise distinction of matters. This is why France stood the role of the distinguished when it embraced such a thinker within it, and what it contains of his approach, which he put forward, is the critical approach that revolves around the circle of doubt (cogito). Therefore, doubt in Descartes’s thought represents a permanent strategy received on all Beliefs, phenomena, every ideology and every truth.
Descartes’s approach in the beginning represents an elegant style, and this seems clear since the thinker avoids verbal improvements or brilliant words, and yet his brilliance appears in language, that is, carrying ideas through the language he uses, and he seeks from behind that to express things through meditation.
Descartes does not see language as a mere mental function, as the description of the human mind is a "universal tool used in various occasions," as it proves to the mind an infinite multiplicity of thoughtful thought and free action through language.
Descartes believes that the study of philosophy is primarily a human field, and what it contains of the philosophy of mind based on the (existing ego), as it aims to improve the human reality, even if it is far from the other day as much as it is concerned with the present day. Descartes' philosophy aims to reveal the truth of things through (the innate light) = (the human mind), and the consequent sense of the occurrence
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