The requirement of rationality. The legacy of René Descartes in the world of contemporary culture: Kyiv, Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, 1996, 117 p.

This publication is based on the materials of the international conference dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the birth of René Descartes "The Legacy of René Descartes in the World of Contemporary Culture", organized by the Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, the Faculty of humanities of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Department of cultural philosophy of the Institute of philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ukrainian scientific journal "Political thought". The publication is the first attempt to generalise the significance of Descartes' philosophical and scientific legacy for European and national culture made by contemporary Ukrainian philosophers.

This collection marks the beginning of the publishing activity of the Ukrainian philosophical foundation.

CONTENTS

1. Descartes' thought in the history of philosophy and science

Cartesian metaphysics and scientific knowledge

Valentyn HUSEV

The problem of obviousness in Cartesianism

Oleg KHOMA (Vinnytsia)

From ‘Sola Fide’ to ‘Ego cogito’

Serhii PROLEIEV

From ‘Ego cogito’ to ‘Contract social’

Victoriia SHAMRAI

From the history of world Cartesianism. Feuerbach

Yurii KUSHAKOV

Descartes' Doubt and Kant's Criticism

1. MINAKOV

Descartes, who is wiser than we are,

or Descartes's rationalism and the modern world view

Ivan TSEKHMISTRO (Kharkiv)

Descartes and the development of classical natural science

Oleksandra RUBANETS

Descartes' cosmism and modern cosmology

Vasyl SHUBIN, Yevhen SMOTRITSKYI (Dnipro)

Analytical geometry of René Descartes

Maksym BYSTRYTSKYI

1. Descartes' legacy in the philosophy and culture of the twentieth century
2. Descartes and the search for metaphysics in the twentieth century

Heorgii ZAIICHENKO (Dnipro)

Husserl's phenomenology and the crisis of the Cartesian ideal of scientific knowledge

Stepan KOSHARNYI

Existentio-hermeneutical reception of Cartesian cogito

Roman KOBETS

Transformation of the Cartesian cogito in the existentialism of J.-P. Sartre

Vitalii LIAKH

René Descartes and postmodern philosophy

Valerii ZAGORODNIUK

The metaphysics of the ‘road=journey’: the landscape of Descartes' thought in the context of the landscape of 17th century Europe

Marina SAVELIEVA

Two tendencies in the philosophical legacy of René Descartes

Marat VERNIKOV (Lviv)

III. Descartes and social rationality

The ambiguity of René Descartes' understanding of rationality

Anatolii MALIVSKYI (Dnipro)

Cartesian tradition and paradoxes of social rationality

Anatolii YERMOLENKO

The fate of method in the social world

Victor BURLACHUK

Cultural-historical a priori

Yevhen BYSTRYTSKYI

Cogito: ethical alternatives

Victor MALAKHOV

Descartes on the moral conditionality of the metaphysical

Vitalii ZHADKO (Zaporizhzhia)

Descartes' rationalism and the New European philosophy of history

Tamara YASHCHUK

"Natural Light of Reason" and the "Chthonicisation" of Mythology

Natalia AMELCHENKO

On the transcendental foundations of the sense

Eduard SHERBENKO