The most distant consequences and the most difficult ones for us to evade of the fundamental event that occurred in the Western episteme towards the end of the eighteenth century may be summed up as follows: negatively, thedomain of the pure forms of knowledge becomes isolated, attaining both autonomy and sovereignty in relation to all empirical knowledge, causing the endless birth and rebirth of a project to formalize the concrete and to constitute, in spite of everything, pure sciences; positively, the empiricaldomains become linked with reﬂections on subjectivity, the human being, and finitude, assuming the value and function of philosophy, as well as of the reduction of philosophy or counter philosophy.