La Tertulia en San Fernando - Ilusión y Realidad

“Hold a while—Am I am so tied to a Body and senses that I cannot exist without them? But I have persuaded myself that there is nothing in the World, no Heaven, no Earth, no Souls, no Bodies; and then why not, that I myself am not Yet surely if I could persuade myself anything, I was. But there is I know not what sort of Deceiver very powerful and very crafty, who always strives to deceive Me; without Doubt therefore I am, if he can deceive me; and let him Deceive me as much as he can, yet he can never make me not to Be, whilst I think that I am. Wherefore I may lay this down as a Principle, that whenever this sentence I am, I exist, is spoken or thought of by Me, it’s necessarily True.” (Descartes, “Meditationes de Prima Philosophia”)

“That what I see, hear, and feel DOTH EXIST, THAT IS to say, IS PERCEIVED BY ME, I no more doubt than I do of my own being. But I do not see how the testimony of sense can be alleged as a proof for the existence of anything which is not perceived by sense.” (Berkley, “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”)

“(...) if we take away the subject, or even only the subjective constitution of our senses in general, then not only the nature and relations of objects in space and time, but even space and time themselves disappear; and that these, as phenomena, cannot exist in themselves, but only in us. What may be the nature of objects considered as things in themselves and without reference to the receptivity of our sensibility is quite unknown to us. We know nothing more than our mode of perceiving them, which is peculiar to us, and which, though not of necessity pertaining to every animated being, is so to the whole human race. With this alone we have to do. Space and time are the pure forms thereof; sensation the matter.” (Kant, “The Critique of Pure Reason”)

“The existence of this whole world remains ever dependent upon the first eye that opened, even if it were that of an insect. For such an eye is a necessary condition of the possibility of knowledge, and the whole world exists only in and for knowledge, and without it is not even thinkable. The world is entirely idea, and as such demands the knowing subject as the supporter of its existence.” (Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Idea”)

“Whether it is a question of my body, the natural world, the past, birth or death, the question is always to know how I can be open to phenomena that transcend me and that, nevertheless, only exist to the extent that I take them up and live them” (Merleau-Ponty, “Phenomenology of Perception”)

En griego, la palabra "kalopsia" hace referencia a la ilusión de creer que algo es más bonito de lo que realmente es.

¿Pero cómo no va a serlo, si no existe la realidad?

Nos volveremos a juntar en el Club ARGO, en la Plaza de Santa Ana 7.

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Club Argo, Plaza de Santa Ana 7, Madrid, Spain