O Filósofo e a Religião ou “entre Jerusalém e Atenas”: Leo Strauss e o Problema Teológico-Político
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Leo Strauss, Problema Teológic-Político, Jerusalém e Atenas, FideísmoAbstract
Resumo: O tema da religião possui lugar central no pensamento de Leo Strauss, de fato, um dos aspectos mais importantes de sua crítica da modernidade passa pela forma que a religião é tratada pelos “filósofos das luzes”. Nesse estudo, apresento o caráter cético da crítica straussiana em relação à pretensão racionalista de substituir a fé religiosa pelo primado da razão teórica. Com isso, pretendo mostrar que para Strauss, é a manutenção da tensão entre fé e razão ou “o conflito entre Jerusalém e Atenas”, que torna possível a existência de modos de vida diferentes, como resultado de disposições distintas do espírito humano, o que revela o caráter profundamente fideísta de sua crítica.
Palavras-chave: Leo Strauss; Problema Teológico-Político; Jerusalém a Atenas; Fideísmo
The Philosopher and Religion or “Between Jerusalem and Athens”: Leo Strauss and the Theological-Political Problem
Abstract: The theme of religion has a central place in the thought of Leo Strauss, in fact, one of the most important aspects of his critique of modernity is the way in which religion is treated by the “philosophers of the Enlightenment”. In this paper, I present the skeptical character of the Straussian critique in relation to the rationalist intention of substituting religious faith for the primacy of theoretical reason. With this, I intend to show that for Strauss, it is the maintenance of the tension between faith and reason or “the conflict between Jerusalem and Athens”, which makes possible the existence of different ways of life, as a result of different dispositions of the human spirit, which reveals the profoundly fideistic character of his criticism.
Keywords: Leo Strauss; Theological-Political Problem; Jerusalem and Athens; Fideism
Data de registro: 13/01/2023
Data de aceite: 06/09/2023
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