Library of Rassegna iberistica

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Chapter | Tres versiones de la modernidad: Descartes, Komenský y Cervantes

Tres versiones de la modernidad: Descartes, Komenský y Cervantes

Abstract

Descartes’ philosophy is considered the beginning of modern thinking, but it is not the only way to think at the beginning of the modernity. Komenskýʼs pansophistic and pedagogical work and Cervantes’ new poetic of the novel can be seen also as answers to the same problem that Descartes was trying to solve: the problem of the relativity of truth. To the impossibility to learn absolute truths, Komenský offers the conception of human life as a process of unending learning; Cervantes, the observation of human life as a process of dialogue and surviving in spite of the lack of such truths. The root of all three writers is the same: the renaissance of scepticism in 16th century in Europe.      


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Submitted: Aug. 25, 2015 | Accepted: March 31, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords Descartes • Modernity • Truth • Novel • Komenský • Cervantes • Kundera

Copyright © 2017 Juan Antonio Sánchez Fernández. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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