El diálogo interreligioso: iniciativas para la gestión de la diversidad religiosa
In: Cultura y sociedad
In: Cultura y sociedad
In: Igreja e Apostolado Pozitivista do Brazil n. 320
In: Política externa, Band 18, Heft 2
ISSN: 1518-6660
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 349-357
The article aims to draw a dialogue between the conception of Ethos present in the poet Patativa of the Assaré and the thought of the philosopher Manfredo Araújo de Oliveira. From the particularity to the universality, both thinkers theorize social ethos as an intrinsic characteristic of the subject. Patativa is a representative of the poetry of the Northeastern pantheon, while Manfredo Oliveira stands out for the power of synthesis and analysis of the main problems in the History of Philosophy. Both thinkers show us how it is possible to philosophize in Portuguese or how it is possible to extract from the historical specificity the dilemmas of human complexity. This article, therefore, makes a reflection that starts from the popular literature to the Northeastern philosophical thought, presented as a guiding thread to ethics.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 169-187
The current study investigates the consistency between the claims of the Dialectic and those of the Canon concerning the problem of freedom, and does so through a comparative analysis of three interpretations, showing why two of them (Carnois and Allison) would be mistaken, and a third (Esteves), defensible. Carnois points out that there would be an incompatibility between Dialectic and Canon in considering that the freedom of the Canon would be a limited and empirical freedom, whereas in the Dialectic it would have an absolute spontaneity. Allison believes that the texts would be compatible, although both present relative and ambiguous practical freedom (dependent on a sensitive incentive), and therefore there would be a pre-critical morality in KrV. Esteves's interpretation seems to us to be more sustainable and allows us to understand the coherence and contemporaneity of texts (both present freedom with absolute spontaneity), showing that, although practical freedom is a relational freedom (applied to human beings and therefore in contact with the empirical), it is not an empirical but hybrid concept.
In: Política externa, Band 18, Heft 4
ISSN: 1518-6660
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 50-60
The discussion about the concept of enlightenment runs through the conception of Immanuel Kant, who thematized it as an exit from the individual from his condition of intellectual minority and guardianship of those who prevent the exercise of thinking for himself, impelling the achievement of autonomy that requires freedom and to make public use of reason. Such problematization about the difficulties interposed to the process of enlightenment can be related to the problem of estrangement in Marx, making the necessary considerations in relation to the historical and social context of both philosophers. In this way, through philosophical investigation, it is possible to establish correlations of complementarities, differences and counterpoints between the different conceptions of Kant and Marx. Thus, we realize that the search for enlightenment depends on overcoming the material determinations of the set of alienations produced by the capitalist mode of production, aiming at the achievement of human emancipation understood as effective autonomous freedom.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 118-130
The present paper brings a reading of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788), seeking support on two central axes: a) the formulation of the categorical imperative; b) the doctrine of the fact of reason. The choice of this course supports the position that, despite the innumerable formulations given to the imperative of morality throughout the GMS, there would be, in the terms of the second Critique, a clearer and more precise formulation of this principle. Regarding the doctrine of the fact of reason, it will be treated in two ways: on the one hand, from an attempt to reconstruct Kant's original theses, based on the philosopher's textual course; on the other, showing to what extent this doctrine represents a change of position in relation to the impossibilities found in the GMS. The aim will be to show how Kant fails to engage in the task of analytically deducing the concept of freedom from the concept of will, and the appeal to the fact of reason is precisely the distinguishing feature of this change. From this, it will be concluded that not only pure reason can be practical, but only pure reason, not empirically constrained reason, is unconditionally practical. Finally, we will talk about the distinction between will and arbitrariness, emphasizing its meaning for the understanding the concept of autonomy and its relation to Kant's concept of anthropology and human nature.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 49-58
The article assumes that the philosophers known as "pre-Socratics" should be understood for analyzing their fragments and for a critical analysis of the testimonies about them that have come to us. The Aristotelian reading prevailed, but today we are able to understand the Ionian philosophy in its particularity, each of its philosophers and the ideas common to them. We approach these philosophers together as members of a historical tradition, as this undoubtedly seems unavoidable for their proper understanding, and we pay attention to the fundamental notions of necessity, evolution and freedom, a kind of backbone of Anaximander's thought to that of Lucretius. Especially in contrast to the idea of final cause (basilar for Aristotle, but also for Plato), we consider that the Ionians followed the opposite path to the Aristotelian and that the Epicureans are their main heirs, hence the expression "Ionian-Epicurean philosophy", for us created to designate what we believe to have been a long and legitimate philosophical tradition.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 221-236
The purpose of this article is to reinforce the alert that the German philosopher Hans Jonas makes in his work Principle responsibility for the imminent possibility of a tragic end of history for humanity if the unpredictable effects arising from the form of action of the liberal political-economic system and the inconsequential advance of the technology that follows are considered. In this intention, we chose as a strategy, to weaken and oppose the Hegelian idea, opposed to Jonah's view, that there would be no cause for alarm because history, in its development, is guided by an immanent and well-intentioned reason that inevitably leads humanity towards the realm of freedom and the absolute spirit. More recently, the American philosopher, economist and political scientist Francis Fukuyama, seeking support in Hegelian thought decreed that history had come to an end with the culmination of the sociocultural evolution of humanity. In this context, we initially seek to present an interpretative analysis of the ideas of Hegel and Fukuyama, and then to make a critique of this way of thinking, in the light of Hans Jonas' arguments. Finally, it is concluded, through the Jonasian lens, that the story, in addition to not having reached its end, as Fukuyama stated, may also have a quite different ending from that imagined by Hegel. Therefore, one should not disregard the occurrence of the hypothesis of an essential death followed by a physical death of the human race, well before the Hegelian project of freedom has a chance to take place. In doubt, it is better for man to be wary of the existence and(or) of the intention and(or) of the capacity of an imminent reason and to retake in time the reins of his own destiny, through the adoption of a new ethical principle: that of responsibility.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 268-282
This article aims to analyze in Sartre's philosophy the relation between the subjectivities from the notion of understanding. Differentiating knowledge of understanding, Sartre proposes that by understanding it is possible to apprehend subjectivity without making it an objective knowledge. Although he points this in several of his studies is the conference on Kierkegaard that this thesis becomes more manifest. In this article we try to demonstrate that this thesis modifies a whole perception about the freedom, so that it as a singularity has a transhistorical dimension, at the same time that it can only be taken, in its own finitude, by understanding. This thesis does not contradict those of the ontology, but, rightly, legitimates the Being as finitude. Finally, freedom is not denoted as an objective knowledge, but as an invitation to understanding ourselves.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 230-249
In 1969, when "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" (1969) was published, Harry Frankfurt changed the course of the discussion about the free will problem. Frankfurt showed, through some thought experiments, agents that, he argued, were moral responsible for their actions even though they could not have acted otherwise. Frankfurt's essay pushed several philosophers, remarkably John Fischer, to rethink the problem of moral responsibility. For Fischer, Frankfurt showed that the debate should not be about the compatibility between freedom and determinism, but rather should address the question of whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 197-210
Throughout this text we intend to develop the idea that there is a close structural connection between categories like will, reason, autonomy, freedom, and causality within Kant's practical philosophy. Thus, starting from the identification of will and reason, we will try to demonstrate that this parallelism is possible only through the purification of the will and the attribution of a practical function to reason. However, only the purification of the will not yet be enough to allow the identification between will and reason. In fact, to identify them, we must demonstrate how to pass from the freedom of will, from, therefore, the freedom considered negatively, to the freedom of practical reason, as the freedom in the positive sense.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 250-260
The 'Negative dialectics' is one of Theodor W. Adorno's most important works of thought, not only due to the fact that there he exposes the fundamental epistemological assumptions for understanding his constellation - method of analysis and procedures -, but also because in it the idea of philosophical experience is effectively an exercise of thought. The purpose of this text is to deal with the key figure thinking about models, from another model of thought, read, the intricate relationship between theory and practice.
In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 303-313
Lately there have been works that show that Kant bases human rights on innate freedom as the only innate right that man has by virtue of his humanity. However, innate freedom cannot justify a theory of human rights because it is only an innate right over my inner self that allows for empirical possession, and although a human right is inalienable, it must be renounced in order to enter the world; Moreover, the four analytical derivations of innate freedom generate consequences that are incompatible with a human rights doctrine, for as human rights refer to all, innate equality and innate independence apply to a limited number of people; Finally, there is a differentiation in the interpretation of humanity's formula in law and ethics, because, subjectively, treating humanity as an end requires the agent to consider that the end of humanity is the motive of his action in ethics, but in law it is only required that its external behavior be in accordance with the end of humanity, and objectively, in law, treating humanity as an end produces criminal law contrary to human rights and the law of humanity requires that innate integrity be suspended during the period of condemnation, furthermore, this differentiation in the idea of humanity becomes explicit in innate imprehensibility, for in ethics lie is the greatest violation of the duty of humanity in his person, but in law only violates the right of humanity if it causes harm to others.