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| Author(s): |
Paulo Borges de Santana Junior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-10-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcio Suzuki;
Maurício Cardoso Keinert;
Ulisses Razzante Vaccari
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| Advisor: | Marcio Suzuki |
| Abstract | |
The main purpose of this work is to discuss, on different themes, the place of aesthetic or sensitive concerns in Kant\'s texts since the Letters upon Aesthetic Education of Man. Always starting from the letter of Kant\'s philosophy, we prepared the issues and postures of this author with regard to the aesthetic field in Kant\'s writing style, in the formulation of moral principles and the promotion of moral task among men. Our objective is, on the one hand, stress the importance of these issues and, on the other hand, show the possibility of, without breaching the Kantian principles, assume different postures of Kant. In this endeavor, Schiller, as a poet-philosopher or philosopher-poet, shows - especially in the aforementioned work - the author who, in a remarkable way, understands the principles of reason and defends a unique position to apply them. Schiller acknowledges that the sensitivity does not have much to add in the grounds of rational principles defended by the analytical understanding. Regarding the human challenge to act on these principles in a pulsating world, where contingencies are never absent, Schiller assigns to the sensitivity a totally different role. If the exact understanding of the legislation of reason need to go through the scholastic or analytical way of Kants Critiques, and need be accessible to few men, the task of reason needs to present itself as feasible to every man who wants to. It is not about asserting that the aesthetic education performs better this task than the project of enlightenment, but only that such education, although it puts a fully human perspective, does not represent a danger to the purity and absoluteness of reason. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/03580-5 - Kant e Schiller: moral, play and education. |
| Grantee: | Paulo Borges de Santana Júnior |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |