Abstract

Avid critic of the knowledge dependent of the old masters, Francisco Sanches strikes a direct blow at the heart of Aristotelic philosophy with the aim of demystifying the author par excellence of Scholasticism. Francisco Sanches, in this context, attempts to show that the human mind, for as sharp as it may be, is always fallible. In fact, shadows of truth show themselves if we search carefully. The whole history of philosophy proves this assertion, or had it not been more than a history of what was humanly capable of investigating. Some authors, possibly the most distinguishable, transcended the humanly capable of other authors, being therefore, unfortunately, treated as masters of knowing. Unfortunately indeed, as this dogmatic acceptance stagnates knowledge. Francisco Sanches visits exactly the classic masters of knowledge, and humbly shows the fallibility of the sapient assertions of Aristoteles.