Abstract

LOPES, Eduardo Simonini. O desejo dos anjos. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2013, vol.27, n.54, pp.503-523. ISSN 1982-596X.

Using the figure of angels as metaphors for the human desire to reach the fullness, the universal knowledge and therefore the control over the alleged general laws of nature, the present work aims to indicate and problematize a few different paths of thought developed from this totalizing desire of the mankind. Among these paths, there would be the religion and the modern science which, even when they seem to oppose in terms of beliefs and methodologies, they share the same perspective in searching for the so called universals: be it the truth in God or the truth in Reason. However, trying not to reduce the real to a transcendent dimension, this paper maintains the perspective that reality does not exist independently from the human beings who practice it amid the warmth of the everyday life, being that even the concepts of God, Reason, Truth and Science cannot be understood without taking into account the networks of knowledge and practices in which they were built.

Keywords : Everyday Life; Desire; Modernity; Invention.

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