Religion Redeemed by Reason

Enlightenment according to Gotthold E. Lessing

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  • Saulo Krieger Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, UNICENTRO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v8i2.31962

Keywords:

Enlightenment. Theology. Controversies. Argumentation. Humanities

Abstract

The paper intends to highlight how much a certain Enlightenment is not necessarily a fight against established religion. It may be even an impulse to save it, although it is not a religious project, but an humanistic one. More precisely, the text proposes to underline that saving religion of itself to emancipate humanity by reason and education would be the very project of Lessing, notably in Nathan the Wise.  For this purpose, the paper will contextualize the German intellectual daily scene of Lessing´s time, scene guided by theological texts, not by enlightened ones; it will approach the various theologies existing then in Germany; it will also approach the very Enlightenment assuming a theological dimension, with Christian Wolff. The enlightened majority of Lessing will be visited by means of his plural vocation, of his taste for controversies, emphasizing also the peculiarity of his argumentation without fixed or demarcated positions; and yet, by the notions of education and humanity.

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Author Biography

Saulo Krieger, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, UNICENTRO

Professor do Departamento de Filosofia da Unicentro (Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste do Paraná), em Guarapuava. Doutor pela Unifesp (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), com tese intitulada O cerne oculto do projeto nietzschiano: Logos versus pathos no ato de filosofar, indicada pela Unifesp para os prêmios Capes de Tese (Filosofia) e Prêmio Anpof 2020. Realizou estágio bolsa-sanduíche como bolsista Capes (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) na Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes e na Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), sob a co-orientação do Prof. Dr. Patrick Wotling. Tematizando o embate entre forças inconscientes e conscientes como moto propulsor e estruturante da obra de Nietzsche, a pesquisa de doutorado envolveu a questão da consciência, da tríade impulsos/afetos/instintos (e entenda-se, a questão do inconsciente), a vivência filológica de Nietzsche, suas concepções de retórica e metáfora, o exercício do estilo (fatores devidamente mobilizados como via de passagem do registro inconsciente ao consciente) e, não por último, o elemento dionisíaco que, tematizado e vivenciado, é retomado pelo Nietzsche da maturidade em bases fisiopsicológicas. Atualmente, pesquisa as relações entre vivência, fazer artístico e posicionamentos antimetafísicos na obra de Nietzsche. Possui graduação em filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo (1998). Tem experiência na área de filosofia, com ênfase em história da filosofia (contemporânea).

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Published

2020-12-31

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KRIEGER, Saulo. Religion Redeemed by Reason: Enlightenment according to Gotthold E. Lessing. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 2, p. 209–232, 2020. DOI: 10.26512/rfmc.v8i2.31962. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/31962. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): Dossiê “Origens da Filosofia Contemporânea”

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