Abstract

GAZMURI BARROS, Rosario. Affectivity, vulnerability and limits of scientific reason. Sophia [online]. 2022, n.32, pp.197-223. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n32.2022.06.

The present paper analyzes the notion of rationality typical of our culture, marked by the scientific paradigm. According to this paradigm, reason has the ability to decipher the laws imprinted in reality in a ‘clear and different’ way in order to dominate that same reality and transform what it reads. This formulation leads to the non-recognition of the human being’s own limit. The first goal of this paper is to understand reason from a new paradigm. The second one is to study the connection of the question of affectivity with the essential vulnerability of the human being and the consequences of this in moral action. The writing is structured in 5 sections. In the first one, the notion of reason will be analyzed as it is conceived from the scientific model. The second one will focus on the consequences that this notion has had on our culture. The third section studies the question that meshes with all the others: the recovery of the cognitive value of affections, in order to rethink, in the fourth section, the question of the practical use of reason and moral action. Finally, a model of a work of art is proposed as a possibility of reencountering the dimensions of the human being silenced by the scientist notion of truth.

Keywords : Rationality; vulnerability; affectivity; habit; deliberation; contemplation.

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