O paraíso, o Tao e o dilema espiritual do Ocidente: passagem do antropocentrismo moderno para o cosmocentrismo pós-modemo

Abstract

This essay should be understood as a response to C. Campbell’s theoretical challenges to researchers of new gnosis based on his idea about the orientalization of the West. He proposes that the old Western theodicy based on a dual representation between The evil and the good has being substituted by another one more complex which places the “divinity” as one condition of self— improvement of men. Therefore, in this essay, we try to explore the relationship between East and West starting from the way that the differences present in both cultures- the cultural diversity- confront and reflect the conceptual challenges suggested by the crises of modernity. We developed two concepts “modern anthropocentrism ” and “POs-modern cosmocentrism ” based on the confrontation of those two different “episteme ” in order to stress some relevant points related with the changes in the modern Western symbolic imaginary. Finally, the central idea of this essay suggest that the resolution of the modern Western spiritual dilemma may imply in the emancipation of a cosmocentric Pos- modern subject which could be more complex and open to a ecological planetary construction.