THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Authors

  • José Luís Villacañas Berlanga

Keywords:

Scepticism, history, standard, political order, sovereignty

Abstract

This essay wishes to explain the breakdown of Spanish normative conscience, settled in a mimetic use of history, recognised as magistra vitae, which offers the accredited behavioural models for the ruler at the same time that it deconstructs them from a precise conscience of their non-adaptation to the present. In this sense, Saavedra experiences in his time and in the political order the same methodical doubt Descartes experienced in the field of sciences. Nonetheless, his scepticism serves an eventual fideism that prevents him from stepping into Hobbes’ constructivism and therefore commit to a modern model of sovereignty.

Issue

Section

Tradición y Novedad