L’uomo, la fisiologia e la responsabilità: una lettura de Les passions de l’âme di Descartes

This essay (written in Italian) wants to enquiry the relation between mind (or soul) and body in Descartes’ physiological description of man. If neurosciences open new descriptions and possibilities, and together with these opportunities, disclose new horizons in knowledge and practice, they put forward questions and problem to be solved. The first one is the connection/relation between mind and body. Here I would like to show how this connection/relation of soul (not only mind) and body, during the Modern era, finds in Descartes’ thought a model and a limit. But the logical framework of his philosophy (that implies the relation of gnoseology, epistemology and ontology) explains this distinction; and method provides to Descartes lens to grasp his physiological description of man.