Jean-Luc Marion lector de Descartes: el fantasma de la alteridad

Many philosophers denounced Descartes’s philosophy as a solipsism. The assertion of the existence of the ego appears as a tautological demonstration that establishes a logical relation between thought and being. However, by distinguishing the different formulas of the cogito, Jean-Luc Marion shows that although the “cogito ergo sum” excludes any entity that does not manifest itself as an object, the cogito of the Meditations opens up an originary alterity that relies, not on its capacity to relate to alter egos but rather on an originary structure of the subject that has always already been haunted by the presence of some kind of other.