The theme of human body in Descartes' philosophy

• Grant number: 23/12356-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2024
• End date: April 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Luís César Guimarães Oliva
• Grantee: João Victor Rezende Dias
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/19880-4 - Power, conflict and freedom: Spinoza and the ways of Modern and Contemporary Political Philosophy about democracy, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/07034-2 - The notion of "some truth" in the second part of Meditation Six., BE.EP.IC

Abstract

The project intends to investigate the "human body" in Descartes' thought from the the point of view of feelings and passions established between the soul and the body, aiming to show that the knowledge that the soul has of body (not while geometric body, but while its body) is not reduced to the pure obscurity and confusion of its ideas, but points to a continuous and peculiar knowledge about it that is built in every relation between the two substances.