Alberto De Vita

Although Descartes, in his epistolary correspondence with Mersenne in 1630, stated that he wanted to address many questions of metaphysics in his treatise on physics – probably referring to Le monde –, in the latter work, he explicitly renounces any engagement in metaphysical considerations. Nevertheless, it is a matter of understanding that such silence is a symptom of a speculative knot that essentially characterizes Cartesian philosophy...