Will, Epistemology, Foundationalism

Many of Descartes' successors disagree with his thesis that 'I am a thinking being' is the basis of Knowledge. Nevertheless, they remain Cartesians insofar as they conceive Philosophy fundamentally as a project of Epistemological Foundationalism, and insofar as they accept sedentary meditation as the prototype of Philosophical activity. Now, just as every sound itinerary begins with one's current location, every sound plan of action entails a perception of one's given situation. In other words, sedentary meditation is abstracted from its organic involvement in Motility, i. e. from its role in supplying the intellect with information that is essential to its structuring of Motility. Thus, the tradition of Epistemological Foundationalism--Rationalism, Empiricism, Phenomenology, etc.--presupposes and abstracts from the functioning of Will, the self-activation principle of Experience.