FOUNDATIONS OF OUR PHILOSOPHICAL THERAPY PROGRAM (Part I)

According to Thomas Hobbes (2014) and his summary of the general arguments about the natural causes of the Sense, raised by the English intellectuals of the first half of the 17th century: The externall body is the cause of the Sense, because the proper organ of each sense. Consequently, the sensitive qualities found in objects are not the same as the representations of these qualities printed on us. The qualities printed in us comprise something else because one movement generates another movement and these qualities appear in us as fantasy, along the same path as dreams (Levaitán, I: 3).

From the above we can derive some very important consequences. The Western weighing constructs the individual and collective identity from a differentiation between the subject that knows and the object and considers the object in empiricist and later positivist terms, as something absolute. However, in the very origin of thought, this according to the empirite approach, meaning and dreams are presented to us by the same path.

This gives us two possible alternatives. 1. Understanding the difference between the information that comes from the senses and the information that comes from the dreams, although both converge on the same path, it is essential to clarify logical, ontological and epistemological principles that help us understand our anguish existential (Linares Huertas, nd). 2. Reflect deeply on the fragility of Western knowledge to begin or continue a process of recognition of one in the whole, based on fundamental principles of Eastern philosophies and other ethnicities of the world.

Hobbes, T. (2014). Leviathan. Cambridge University Press.

Linares Huertas, O. (s.f). La filosofía como terapia. La actitud vital estoica frente al malestar existencial (Doctoral Thesis). Universidad de Granada