Where you can find bits and pieces of different objects.

Yo sé que un desarmadero es el lugar donde se desarman automóviles y otros vehiculos para rescatar aquellas partes que se pueden volver a usar/vender. Yo sugiero algo parecido, "garage sale" o "yard sale", porque ahí también se venden objetos descartados, que les resultan útiles a otros. Creo que se puede usar en el contexto y decir algo así como: "They never found a conscience in Descartes´s garage/yard sale". Just an idea! Suerte :D

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But are they refering to "conciencia" as "moral conscience" or "self-awareness"???

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:99JNYVD7w7MJ:www.proz.c...

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by Stephen A. Mitchell - 2000 - Psychology - 173 pages
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dismantled edifice of

difficult one

hope this gives you some ideas :-)

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Don't know much about Rene but

how about

Descartes' dismantled edifice of metaphysics

If he didn't believe in the conscience/soul?

or is that just a bit too heavy?

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You could well be right about "consciousness", Rita, it did occur to me, but being in a rush earlier, I didn't really pursue this further...

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Yep

of course you're right, Rita

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi...

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I don't mean to be flippant, but I find this philosophy a bit of a dead end!

Also my ex-husband taught this sort of stuff, so it has always put me off this type of philosophy! :-)


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Do you know, I get that feeling too when I am translating some stuff into English.

Just because we translate doesn't mean we always understand, eh?

Bye and good luck with this!

Alternatives:
Descartes’ close examination/scrutiny*
Descartes’ questioning of basic concepts*
Descartes’ drawing into question of basic beliefs*

*all suggestions subject to further context

Explanation:
It would neither do justice to Descartes’ philosophy nor to Derrida's notion of "deconstruction" to confuse them. To cut it very short, Descartes sets out enquiring all kinds of things that appear to the human sense (or better call them objects of human perception) and asking whether these could represent pieces of truth or actual being in a philosophical sense, and eventually reveals them as mere perceptions based on and flawed by the limits of unreflected observation. However, at the turning point of his Meditationes (= his chief work), he finds what he understands to be an unquestionable certainty, namely the famous “Cogito, ergo sum”, which basically means that, in doubting all kinds of perceptions I can think of, there is one thing which I cannot doubt, namely my very capability of doubting itself, and that is, my capability to think. This leads him to introduce thinking itself as the ultimate principle of certainty, as long as my thoughts are “clear and distinct”. On this basis, he then arrives at a re-affirmation of any idea or concept that can be thought in this way, “clearly and distinctly”, especially the notions of “God” and “I”, which according to him cannot be denied their existence for the same reason. Accordingly, he winds up re-affirming all concepts/thoughts that fulfil this criterion.

With Derrida, while there are parallels (e. g. both are focussing on fundamental epistemological questions), the conclusion is far from similar: Derrida reveals that all believed certainty is rooted in concepts or basic ideas that the human mind cannot question, but which cannot be true either, because they are based on sets of binary oppositions and other rituals the only “advantage” of which is that without them, we would not be able to understand or even talk to each other. It would take a language different from all human languages to understand and communicate what is happening. He thus reveals these concepts as unconfirmable, yet insurmountable dogmas. According to Derrida, it ultimately follows that, while deconstruction helps us to learn that we must have been dreaming, we must necessarily live on as dreamers, in order to continue communication. While there can be no triumph about any re-affirmation of metaphysics (as in Descartes’ way), we are left with a sense of sheer incapability to do without it.