Abstract

NUNES SOBRINHO, Rubens Garcia. A epistemologia charroniana de Descartes. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2011, vol.25, n.49, pp.121-147. ISSN 1982-596X.

In his masterwork De La Sagesse, Pierre Charron systematizes a skeptical epistemology which configures the background and the central target of modern skepticism: the criterion of evidence. The Charronian epistemology develops basic concepts that will be used in the Rules for de Direction of the Mind and incorporated in the Discourse on the Method as crucial elements to the formulation of Cartesian cogito. The scope of this work is to explain the connection of capital ideas which composes the Rules for de Direction of the Mind with the systematized skeptical epistemology in De La Sagesse and to highlight the links that allow the inference that the Cartesian criterion of evidence is primarily a Charronian concept.

Keywords : Critério; Evidência; Criterion; Evidence; Understanding.

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