THE MATERIALISTIC COMPONENT IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF R. DESCARTES: WORKING OVER ASSUMPTIONS ALTERNATIVE TO BIBLICAL, WHICH ARE DECLARED AS DELIBERATELY FALSE
Vasiliy Pavlovich Goran
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: Descartes, philosophy, truth, hypothesis, God, religious worldview, biblical texts, experimental data, life, corporeal world, materialism
Abstract
The article considers assumptions used by R. Descartes, of which he declares he does not recognize them as true. He declares them as such, since he uses them not guided by biblical texts, but on the basis of experimental data. Nevertheless, he recognizes them as significant “for life”. First of all, Descartes here considers the corporeal world in the making, but not as created by God wholly-formed. Also, here he not only demonstrates a distraction from the idea of God as the ruler of the processes occurring in nature, but also notes that such a distraction is justifiable. All this gives grounds to recognize the presence of a materialistic component in the considered constituent of his teaching. And since before this, Descartes formulated the basic laws of mechanics, his contribution to the development of modern science is also appreciated. The conclusion is made that although the main part of what Descartes states here is not proclaimed by him as true, nevertheless, by publishing his considerations he contributed a lot to strengthening the emerging tendencies to overcome adherence to a religious worldview
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