O ESTOICISMO E O CETICISMO: AS DUAS VIAS FILOSÓFICAS PARA A CONSTRUÇÃO DO PARADOXO ENTRE GRANDEZA E MISÉRIA EM BLAISE PASCAL

Arlindo Nascimento Rocha

doi:10.23925/1980-8305.2020v23i35a8

O ESTOICISMO E O CETICISMO: AS DUAS VIAS FILOSÓFICAS PARA A CONSTRUÇÃO DO PARADOXO ENTRE GRANDEZA E MISÉRIA EM BLAISE PASCAL

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Arlindo Nascimento Rocha Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - SP. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0276-1674

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https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-8305.2020v23i35a8

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Blaise Pascal is the philosopher of the paradox, because, for him, the truth is the meeting of opposites. In his anthropology, man is analyzed as a paradoxical being, at the same time big and small, weak and strong, big and miserable. These contradictions are present in all men, but most philosophers throughout the history of Western thought have seen only one side, that is, they have a unilateral and limited view of man. This article aims to analyze the two philosophical ways in which Pascal constructs the paradox between greatness and misery, as fundamental to the study and understanding of man. To this end, he especially supports two philosophers, Epiteto and Montaigne, showing that the 'truth' of each philosophical chain operates as a disqualification from the 'truth' of the other. But for Pascal, the true understanding of man, is in the meeting of these two contradictory dimensions, that is, paradoxical.

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Arlindo Nascimento Rocha, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - SP.

Doutorando e Mestre em Ciências da Religião – (PUC-SP) Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo; Pós-Graduado em Administração, Supervisão e Orientação Pedagógica e Educacional – (UCP) Universidade Católica de Petrópolis; foi aluno extraordinário do curso de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da (PUC-Rio) Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; Licenciado em Filosofia – (UNI-CV) - Universidade Pública de Cabo Verde; Formado em Pedagogia (curso Inicial de formação de professores do EBI) - Instituto Pedagógico do Mindelo.

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2020-08-11

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Rocha, A. N. (2020). O ESTOICISMO E O CETICISMO: AS DUAS VIAS FILOSÓFICAS PARA A CONSTRUÇÃO DO PARADOXO ENTRE GRANDEZA E MISÉRIA EM BLAISE PASCAL. Último Andar, 23(35). https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-8305.2020v23i35a8

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Vol. 23 No. 35 (2020): Religião, Neoliberalismo e Direitos Humanos

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