Knowledge, Method and Upbringing in Descartes and Comenius

This paper examines two methodological proposals presented in the 17th century as a way to enface the socalled knowledge problem. Comenius as well as Descartes, both pay attention to educational problems in a different way; and, most importantly, it must be remembered that theoretical and methodological discussions are not strictly separate from practical ones. In other words, education problems are intrinsically related to epistemological questions and vice versa. For example, there is no methodological or epistemological proposal in Comenius and Descartes which is not related to a way of educating an individual human being. Whatever philosophical construction is presented, it also involves an anthropological construction which is fulfilled in some kind of educational Proposal.