It
was during the whole course of the XVI century and first
half a decade of the XVII one while Spain was met to the
colonization of the new world, when the Spanish philosophy
acquired its biggest development and its most surprising
florescence
For
Spain it was that century and great part of the following
one, what the century before Christ was for Greece and it
was denominated the century of Pericles, and what was the
XVII century for France that was called Luis XIV
century with reason
When
this knowledge and bloom of the culture was overturned
generously America and flourished in our lands all the
philosophical schools that were developed for that same time
in Europe.
There
were them scholastic as Pardo Gerónimo, Gaspar Lax, Juan of
Celaya and Fernando De Encinas.
There
were them Aristotelian as Juan Gines of Sepúlveda, Gaspar
Cardillo and Pedro Simón April.
We
also had them to the anti- Aristotelian as Pedro Rams,
Hernando of Herrera, Francisco Sánchez and Pedro Núñez
Vela.
There
were them platonic burning as Juan Boscan and Miguel Servet.
All
of them filled with their vision of the cosmos to our
American skies.
Cover
of the treaty of Philosophy of Pedro Cerezo
In
the twilights of the XVII century, overwhelmed of glory failed
the scholastic one in their encounter with the experimental
sciences. It was a disgrace and anything important not having
delimited the metaphysics fields resolutely and of the physics,
being satisfied in dominating in those of that abandoning those
of this.
An
accountable but lamentable desire to conserve all the old
domains took it to the bad reputation and the bankruptcy. It was
a defeat for the scholastic one, but at the end of the XVIII
century and principles of the XIX one it had to arise which bird
Phoenix from among those ashes
And
today is the scholastic one, the philosophical system that has
bigger number of followers and in its lines are many of the
biggest thinkers that honor the contemporary culture.
The failure of the scholastic inSpain in this time, is a test of the enormous freedom
of thought that was in that country for all the ideas, still
for most bold. The call “new philosophy”, entered
without obstacles of no nature, except the resistance that
to it the heirs of the scholastic offered.
Thus it was that the new philosophy, today called cartesian,
arrived at America during the lifeof Descartes.Father
Dennis Mesland was one of its admirers and had
correspondence with him,.
It is not possible that in all his permanence in America (that
was extensive) Father Meslandhas not presented the ideas of Descartes. The
great French mathematician said to him in a letter:
Explaining my reasonings, you have had taken care of to make
appear them with all its force and have interpreted in my
benefit many things that could have been distorted or have
been hidden by others. It is in that I recognize
particularly your sincerity and I see
that you have wanted to me to favor. I have not found a word
in the writings that you have sent to me to which I do not
subscribe and that entirely to me that are very many
thoughts that are not in my meditations, or that are not
deduced of the same ones or that I despite would take with
taste and would do mine.
