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Descartes consolidates the transition from the science of truth to the science of man. In this science a cura sui prevails, that will end up empowering the subject internally, while blurring the other. Every man could be wise. However, not through the experience of consciousness as a methodical and theoretical exercise of the soul, but through a forma vitae that taught the strengthening of the will. The form of virtue is generosity, and even though it includes the diverse forms of love, the cartesian cogito fails to escape self-referential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The articles in this second monographic issue dedicated to Descartes are another outcome of the research project --funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, [Reference PID2021-126133NB-I00]-- entitled Ethics and Metaphysics of Affections. The Modern Genesis of the Present (EMAP). The following are Cartesian reinterpretations that emphasize the revision of certain topics attributed to the thinking of the father of modernity, who is more often mentioned than read and studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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