A dúvida hiperbólica cartesiana: um experimento de pensamento filosófico

Abstract

We argue in this research that Cartesian hyperbolic doubt is an philosophical thought experiment. The understanding of the great philosophers we used for this study, many including specialists in Cartesianism - not to mention the brilliant interpretation made by Martial Gueroult - provides us with a sufficiently worthy theoretical/philosophical and critical reference for such a conception defended by us throughout this investigation. Far from being an empirically executed doubt, it is a doubt that should only be experienced in the reader's "laboratory of the mind", and that, therefore, should be restricted to the field of philosophical theoretical knowledge. A dynamic found in the investigative process that allowed us to reach a better understanding of the Cartesian doubt was to adjust this framework of Descartes' interpreters to the level of understanding of important scholars who deal with the epistemology of thought experiments in contemporary philosophy. The First Meditation is characterized as a type of attitudinal philosophy, which demonstrates that instead of a descriptive or discursive theory found in this Meditation, what we actually have is an active position on the part of the meditator: it is like a musical score that needs be executed. Therefore, the thought experimenter critically and orderly evaluated all the implications introduced to him in the scenario, and what resulted from this mental manipulation was his encounter with himself: the knowledge of the contemporaneity between thinking and existing. Cartesian doubt is a tool that is not integrated into the finished work, although it is essential for its construction. Its realization is outlined between oppositions in thought and not between forces that operate in concrete reality. Doubt is constituted as a method, a voluntarily simulated perception. Efficient and theoretical, it must function for a period of time in the logical sphere, but then it must gradually be extinguished.