The Cartesian Epistemic Leap and the Frenzy of Creation: From the Coin Duality of Subject and Object to the Self-Defeating Paradox of Synthesizing Superior Beings
Descartes' revolutionary rupture in intellectual history lay in using radical doubt to shatter scholastic object-primacy, illuminating the long-obscured subjective side within the inalienable certainty of the first-person horizon. The subject-object divide was not originated by Descartes; it had long been entrenched in ancient and medieval thought. The purpose of this inquiry is neither to criticize nor to judge Descartes as a thinker, but to objectively reveal the inherent boundaries of his theoretical scaffolding.
Yet, at the very peak of this leap, Descartes' scaffolding encountered its…
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