Abstract

ARBAIZAR-GIL, Benito. Heidegger and Descartes: The Beginning and the Retreat. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2024, n.68, pp.179-214.  Epub Mar 28, 2024. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v680.2485.

This paper puts forward an interpretation of three decisive dreams that shook Descartes taking as a starting point what Heidegger called another beginning of philosophy in horror (das Erschrecken). On the one hand, it will be shown how Descartes’s nightmares opened the possibility of an initial way of thinking. On the other hand, it will be discussed how Descartes recoils from this possibility. By linking the hidden dimension of being to the demonic realm, Descartes seeked refuge in a calculating thought based on a truthful God who guarantees the availability of being. The analysis of dreams proposed here seeks to draw attention to a background that will help explain what Descartes is seeking refuge from when he builds his scientific structure and what avenues remain open in the subsoil of his thought.

Keywords : beginning; Descartes; Heidegger; metaphysics; machination.

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