%0 Journal Article %T Meditaciones morales de Descartes: pasi¨®n y auto conservaci¨®n de la vida %A Burlando %A Giannina %J Veritas %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-92732011000200005 %X the hypothesis held in the current study is that descartes is truly concerned about moral matters; that his moral meditations involve a doct¨²ne on the passions of the soul and a conception of life as well, both of them intrinsically tied up. thus, my pupose is as follows: first, to show that it is possible to reconstruct crucial aspects of descartes¡¯s moral meditations after the analysis of his copus doct¨²nae: that his moral stand involves a new conception of the passions. secondly, i shall underline that ethos y pathos are connected in his ¨²ews; that this connection is explica in descartes¡¯s ideas of practical knowkdge, namely, in the sort of praxis recon as £¿the exercise of¨²rtue£¿, the £¿¨²vre heureusement£¿. thirdly 1 mili approach the question on wherein does cartesian morality lye? £¿is it a matter of concepts, judgments, character, education, action and practical wisdom, or rather a question of the int¨²nsic properties of things and human agents, or even a mixture among some of these? %K descartes %K moral meditations %K passions. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-92732011000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en