O O Papel Epistemológico da Consciência na Recherche de la Vérité de Nicolas Malebranche

Vinícius França Freitas

doi:10.5007/1808-1711.2021.e91930

Authors

Vinícius França Freitas Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-4732

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2021.e91930

Keywords:

Knowledge, Spirit, Consciousness, Reflection, Nicolas Malebranche

Abstract

The paper discusses the epistemological role of consciousness in Nicolas Malebranche's Recherche de la Vérité. After presenting the problem of how an epistemologically negative view of consciousness could represent an obstacle to the project of founding a ‘science of man’, it is argued that Malebranche understands ‘reflection’, a specific type of consciousness, as a pure / intellectual form of perception and therefore an unproblematic way of accessing mental phenomena from an epistemological point of view. Reflection could be the foundation of the science of man.

Author Biography

Vinícius França Freitas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Possui graduação em Filosofia (Bacharelado e Licenciatura) pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (2010), mestrado em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2012) e doutorado em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e pela Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2017). Atualmente, é pós-doutorando (PNPD / CAPES) na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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