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VELASCO GUZMAN, Luis Antonio. El sentido original de la constructio cartesiana. Valenciana [online]. 2010, vol.3, n.5, pp.143-173. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i5.239.

This paper intends to clarify the relevance of the Cartesian concept of construction for his main philosophical project. The via to develop this idea is divided in two terms: first, I will explain my understanding of the modern paradox about the construction of the world and then I will clarify the sense given to the concept of constructio before the Cartesian new sense. Afterwards, I will study the Cartesian paradigms of construction through the process which I call the two Cartesian Construction Cycles -which are needed for the creation of the modern world. This part of my paper intends to be a careful reading of the argument in the Discourse on the Method which develops the Cartesian question on the new world’s construction proposed by Descartes.

Palavras-chave : world’s construction; Cartesian paradigms; Modernity.