Algunas reflexiones acerca de cuestiones de método, inmanencia y evidencia en la filosofía moderna

Abstract

In this paper a critique of the perspective of consciousness –characteristic of modern philosophy– is proposed: Beginning with a mistaken interpretation of the method of mathematics, Descartes and modern philosophy came to think that philosophical knowledge is based on the evidence of a principle, the certainty of the ego, what is evident to that ego and what follows from this. Elaborating on this initial error, the modern doctrine of sensory perception reduces all immediacy of the things given to man to the immediacy of what is given to sensory perception, denying that there may be another immediacy, that of the absence of representations in man’s relationship to things, among which he would exist. There are solely the ego, reduced to consciousness, and representations. Immediate knowledge of the things themselves is refused, leading to the doctrine of the immanence of consciousness.