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September 16, 2025Bulletin of Science and Practice0 citationsOpen Access

I, Soul, Thinking, Person, Consciousness, Social Time and Descartes' Philosophy

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GEGrigorii Konstantinovich Ezri

Key Points

  • Descartes' philosophy presents contradictions regarding essence and existence, complicating the concepts of personhood.
  • The analysis shows that Descartes' understanding of social time reflects tension between empirical identity and abstraction.
  • Retrospective analysis applied Kant’s and Jung’s ideas to reinterpret Descartes' philosophy concerning essence and existence.
  • Identifying essence and existence as contradictory elements illustrates the evolution of philosophical thought beyond Descartes.

Abstract

There is research the matters of Descartes’ social philosophy and philosophical anthropology. Cartesianism is researched in the frame of retrospective analysis; the aim of this point is explication of Descartes’ understanding a person’s and a social time’s concepts. It is proposed some other interpretation of Descartes’ philosophy; this point is based on Kant’s, Jung’s, Ilyenkov’s ideas. There is research Descartes’ interpretation of essence and existence, it is shown contradictory nature of Aristotle’s, imiaslavie’s identification of essence and existence. Conclusion is identification of essence and existence constructed this philosophy as contradictory and become one of accelerators, catalyst of future philosophy’s development. The ambiguityof Descartes' views is dictatedby his largely Aristotelian views, which he learned from the Catholic faith and everyday usage. Aristotelian philosophy has been familiar and commonplacein the West sincethe time of Thomas Aquinas.In this way, Descartes absorbed the view of the relationship between essence and energy, in his terms, essence and existence. Because of the identification of essence and energy, the French philosopher received a Slavic context in his philosophy in its deep essence (A name is God, God is not a Name). Therefore, it is difficult to find personality and social time in Descartes' philosophy, because they are in a paradoxical state. While maintaining the identity of the Ego onan empirical and abstract (universal) level, Descartes actually asserted a numberof contradictory things. Pascal's idea that it is not an abstract subject that learns, but a concrete personality, does not contradict Cartesianism: knowledge of truth and ideasis given to a person inthe soul, mind, and cognition based on intellectual and sensory categoriestakes place in the personality,the thinking body of a conscious person who resides in social time along with other empirical subjects.

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