Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:09:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1716408 bytes, checksum: ad193c670d09d5a8667ea86676bb4cc4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The meta-archeology of Education, suggested in this work, refers to Emmanuel Lévinas and Paulo Freire and wants to orientate a philosophical reflection about the questions raised by the necessity of looking at the Other as a source of learning that enables the human being to be more. The problem concerning this research may be explained as follows: How can Lévinas Philosophy, in a dialog with the educational Theory by Paulo Freire, help defining principles or bases of intersubjective relationships present in education? We consider that the intersubjective relationships, within the educational universe, are built over two great bases or over a basis properly defined and over something that is beyond the basis. A contribution that this research brings and that reveals a possible originality within the educational field refers to the deconstruction of the category that is conveniently referred to as basis or principle. Supported by the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas, we present a perspective concerning the Western philosophy that comprised, most of the times, totalitarian bases, concerned about the unit, coherence and synthesis, dismissing, because of that, the singularities, the contradictions and the diversities. We suggest the term meta-archeology to indicate a reality that begins, but that is open to diversity, the difference, resistant to presenting itself as a paradigm. The hypothesis that determined the beginning of our works, already influenced by the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and by the epistemology of the education of Paulo Freire, brings as an answer to our thesis problem the following statement: The relationship between the alterity and the exercise of the dialog enable and emphasize a metaarcheology of the emancipative education, beyond the identity limits. On the other hand, it is the autological rationality that begins and sustains, within the educational processes, the interpersonal relationships excluding and resistant to diversity. In order to build a methodology that would organize the approach of a subject in regards to a phenomenon and, at the same time, offer sufficient elements to [dis]organize and [re]organize the speech in view of future theoretical and practical constructions, we considered it is more convenient to approach the questions raised by the phenomenological hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The thesis was grounded on four main categories: knowledge and autology, on the one hand, and alterity and dialog on the other hand. These are two cuts that tension each other reciprocally. The comprehension of the first group of categories favors the comprehension of the second one and vice-versa. The first group is understood as the basis or principle for the education; the second one, as meta-archeology, something that is beyond the principle (arché). The set of Lévinas categories has alterity as its central category and articulator of the others: ethics and philosophy first, language, subjectivity, autrement (different than being). The set of Freire categories has dialog as its central category and articulates the others: freedom, social and political, justice, culture. With these categories, we tried to build an educational theory that may enable ethical learning processes of reception and commitment with others and even enable learning for the suspicion, refractory to the will of power. / A meta-arqueologia da Educação, proposta neste trabalho, toma como referência Emmanuel Lévinas e Paulo Freire e quer orientar uma reflexão filosófica sobre as questões colocadas pela necessidade de olhar o Outro como fonte de uma aprendizagem que possibilita o ser humano ser mais. O problema desta pesquisa pode ser explicitado da seguinte maneira: Como a Filosofia de Lévinas, em diálogo com a Teoria da educação de Paulo Freire ajudam a delinear princípios ou fundamentos de relações intersubjetivas presentes na educação? Consideramos que as relações intersubjetivas, no universo educacional, são construídas sobre dois grandes fundamentos ou sobre um fundamento propriamente dito e sobre algo que está para além do fundamento. Uma contribuição que esta pesquisa traz e que revela uma possível originalidade no campo educacional refere-se à desconstrução da categoria que se convencionou chamar de fundamento ou princípio. Ancorados na filosofia de Emmanuel Lévinas, apresentamos uma perspectiva acerca da filosofia ocidental que constituiu, na maioria das vezes, fundamentos totalitários, preocupados com a unidade, coerência e síntese, destituindo, por conta disso, as singularidades, as contradições e as diversidades. Propomos o termo meta-arqueologia para designar uma realidade que principia, mas que permanece aberta à diversidade, à diferença, resistente a se apresentar como paradigma. A hipótese que marcou o início de nossos trabalhos, já influenciados pela filosofia de Emmanuel Lévinas e pela epistemologia da educação de Paulo Freire, traz como resposta ao nosso problema de tese a seguinte afirmação: A relação de alteridade e o exercício do diálogo permitem e marcam uma meta-arqueologia da educação emancipatória, para além dos limites identitários. Por outro lado, é a racionalidade autológica que principia e sustenta, no interior dos processos educativos, as relações interpessoais excludentes e resistentes à diversidade. Para construir uma metodologia que organizasse a abordagem de um sujeito acerca de um fenômeno e, ao mesmo tempo, oferecesse elementos suficientes para [des]arrumar e [re]organizar o discurso em vista de futuras construções teóricas e práticas, julgamos mais conveniente abordar as questões postas pela hermenêutica fenomenológica de Paul Ricoeur. A tese alicerçou-se em quatro categorias centrais: saber e autologia, de um lado, e alteridade e diálogo, de outro. São dois cortes que se tensionam reciprocamente. A compreensão do primeiro grupo de categorias favorece a compreensão do segundo e vice-versa. O primeiro grupo é compreendido como fundamento ou princípio para a educação; o segundo, como uma meta-arqueologia, algo que está para além do princípio (arché). O conjunto de categorias levinasianas tem alteridade como categoria central e articuladora das outras: ética e filosofia primeira, linguagem, subjetividade, autrement (de outro modo que ser). O conjunto das categorias freireanas tem diálogo como categoria central e articula as outras: liberdade, social e político, justiça, cultura. Com essas categorias, buscamos construir uma teoria educacional que possa viabilizar processos de aprendizagens éticos de acolhimento e compromisso com o outrem e ainda propiciadora de uma aprendizagem para a suspeita, refratária à vontade de poder.

Für Inga Maria Schüttes (M. A.) Beitrag Die Qualität des Unterschieds. Das Weibliche als das Andere in der Philosophie von Emmanuel Lévinas stellt sich das Problem von Kontinuitäten, Differenzen und gendercodierten Normierungen des Denkens sowohl auf der Objektebene ausgewählter früherer Werke (Le Temps et l’autre; Totalité et L’Infini) dieses Philosophen wie auf der Reflexionsebene der philosophiegeschichtlichen Forschung, wo feministische Relektüren von Levinas‘schen Kernbegriffen (Weibliches, Tod, Eros, Frau) durch Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray und andere bislang weitgehend ausgeblendet oder abgewehrt worden sind. Über ihre eigene behutsam-kritische und textnahe Lesart hinaus plädiert die Verfasserin daher für eine umfassende, den methodischen und terminologischen Standards der Gender Studies konsequent verpflichtete Revision und Neubewertung von Levinas‘ alteritätstheoretisch wichtiger Philosophie.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What does it mean that the violence of aggression could justify the violence of resistance? What does such justification accomplish, and when, and how? What underlies the conditions and limitations of justified violence, as, for example, these have been formulated in western doctrines of "just war"? Most critically, how could one think about the possibility of a resistance to evil that would be effective without itself instituting further violence? The theoretical ground of this investigation is found in a close reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas, specifically the section of his Otheruiise than Being, or Beyond Essence in which human consciousness is shown to be, from the first, called to justice in responsibility for others. For Levinas, to be a subject is to be always already for-the-other as a substitute or hostage. This is both a persecution and the "glory" of human being. Thus Levinas introduces an enigmatic "good violence" prior to any distinction between aggressive and just violences. The idea of an originary good violence opens up a reconsideration of the evil of aggression and the joyfulness of resistance. This in turn shows the instability or equivocation of just violence: even if it is inspired by goodness - by one's responsibility for the useless suffering of others - it is never finally good enough, and always at risk of slipping into injustice. The responsibility of a "just warrior" is thus not cancelled by the justness of the cause. The justness of the cause indeed demands ever greater responsibility, even for and before one's enemy. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Wat sou dit kon beteken dat die geweld van aggressie die geweld van verset regverdig? Wat word bewerkstellig deur sodanige regverdiging, en wanneer, en . hoe? Waarop berus die voorwaardes en beperkinge van geregverdigde geweld, soos dit byvoorbeeld geformuleer is in Westerse leerstellings oor "regverdige oorlog"? Nog belangriker: hoe kan 'n mens dink oor die moontlikheid van verset teen die bose wat effektief is, maar sonder om self verdere geweld daar te stel? Die teoretiese grondslag van hierdie ondersoek is 'n nougesette bestudering van die werk van Emmanuel Levinas, meer spesifiek die afdeling van sy Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence, waarin hy argumenteer dat die menslike bewussyn van meet af aan tot geregtigheid opgeroep word in verantwoordelikheid vir andere. Om 'n subjek te wees is vir Levinas om altyd alreeds vir-dié-ander te wees as 'n plaasvervanger of gyselaar. Dit is sowel 'n vervolging as die "heerlikheid" van menswees. Levinas argumenteer dus ten gunste van 'n "goeie geweld" voorafgaande aan enige onderskeidinge tussen aggressiewe en geregverdigde geweld. Die idee van 'n oorspronklike goeie geweld maak 'n herdenking van die boosheid van agressie en die vreugdevolheid van verset moontlik. Op sy beurt toon dit die onstabiliteit of dubbelsinnigheid van geregverdigde geweld: selfs al word dit geïnspireer deur goedheid - deur 'n mens se verantwoordelikheid vir die nuttelose lyding van ander - is dit nooit goed genoeg nie en loop dit altyd die gevaar om om te slaan in onreg. Die verantwoordelikheid van 'n "regverdige vegter" word daarom nie uitgekanselleer deur die regverdigheid van sy saak nie. Die regverdigheid van die saak eis trouens nog groter verantwoordelikheid, selfs vir en vóór jou vyand.

<p>This study constitutes an attempt to bring the notion of stupidity into relation with ethics and creativity, through a reading of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Employing Emmanuel Lévinas' theories on ethics - the responsible responsiveness in regard to the Other and the concept of the Face - the objective is to demonstrate how stupidity, conceived as lack of control and knowledge, functions as a precondition for the ethical relation between humans, as well as that of the individual to her creativity.</p>

The aim of this diploma thesis is a philosophical interpretation of the problem of intersubjectivity in the work of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995). In the first part, it deals with the conception of the Other in the Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness and analyzes (after a brief introduction to Sartre's philosophy) concrete aspects of Sartre's theory of intersubjectivity. This part ends with a critique of Sartre's theory, which enable us to interpret the Levinas's theory as an alternative conception of intersubjektivity. The analysis in the second part is based on the Levinas's book Totality and infinity. The final part sums up the main differences of both conceptions. Key words: intersubjectivity, the Other, existence, freedom, ethics, Sartre, Levinas

O presente trabalho apresenta uma nova perspectiva para as discussões jurídicas e bioéticas acerca dos direitos da personalidade dos pacientes terminais e encontra em nosso ordenamento jurídico, na afirmação de um direito geral da personalidade, a plenitude da tutela civil dos bens jurídicos personalíssimos do enfermo, sobretudo nas etapas finais da doença, ocasião em que a hipermedicalização do processo de morrer destaca-se como o principal fator gerador de lesões de diversas naturezas a esses bens. No caminho para chegarmos à proteção geral da personalidade, examinamos alguns direitos especiais que emergem ao final da existência humana, como o direito à morte em momento natural. No intuito de recuperar a centralidade da pessoa humana como fim único a que devem servir o Direito e a Medicina, construímos a trajetória do conceito de pessoa em seu desenvolvimento jusfilosófico para afirmar que todo ser humano é pessoa e sujeito de direito (ubi homo sapiens, ibi persona), ainda que não possua capacidade jurídica de fato, e, com isso, demonstrar a impossibilidade de pertença a uma classe de não pessoas independentemente de circunstâncias ou do desenvolvimento biopsíquico humano. Asseveramos, também, que o cuidar e o tratar em pacientes gravemente enfermos e terminais deve relacionar-se, antes, ao homem em sua dignidade e plenitude, em uma concepção biomédica, filosófica e metafísica conjugada da sua existência, e não se reduzir à simples obstinação prognóstica e terapêutica, visão reducionista que relaciona tratar a doença a um investimento no prolongamento estéril da vida humana. Nesse sentido, apresentamos perspectiva jurídica inovadora para a enfermidade e para a vivência dessa condição, do ponto de vista de pacientes terminais, cuidadores e equipes de saúde, à luz do pensamento de Emmanuel Lévinas e à centralidade que ele outorga à figura do Outro, que ilumina nossa hermenêutica do instituto dos direitos da personalidade. Concluímos que se faz necessária uma mudança do paradigma atual de cuidados de saúde em fim de vida também na esfera jurídica, com a aceitação, na escolha terapêutica, da naturalidade do evento morte ao final da existência: da busca da cura, para o cuidar; da quantidade para a qualidade da vida que resta. / The thesis presents a new perspective of the legal and bioethical discussions regarding individual rights of terminal ill patients and finds in our legal system, in the assertion of a general individual right, the plenitude of the protection of the legal rights of the ill, especially at the last stages of the disease, when hipermedicalization of the dying process asserts itself as the major source of the various damages caused to individual rights. On the pathway to achieve the general protection of the personhood, we highlight some special rights which emerge at the end of human existence, as, for instance, the right for a death at a natural moment. To recover the centrality of the human person as the single and only end to which Law and Medicine should serve, we present herein a path of the concept of personhood in its juridical and philosophical development to affirm that every human being is an individual (ubi homo sapiens, ibi persona), even if he/she doesnt have legal capacity and, therewith, demonstrate the impossibility of belonging to a class of non-persons independently of circumstances or the bio-psychic development. We also argue that treating and caring of seriously ill and terminal patients should be related with person in its dignity and fullness, in a biomedical, philosophical and metaphysical conception of existence, irreducible to mere obstinacy in prognosis and treatment, as a result of a reductionist perspective which relates treating a disease to a futile investment of a sterile extension of human life. In this sense, we present a innovative juridical perspective to illness and the experience of this condition, from the point of view of terminal ill patients, caregivers and health care teams in light of the thought of Emmanuel Lévinas and the centrality that he grants to the figure of the Other, which illuminates our interpretation of individual rights. We conclude that a change in the extant paradigm of the end-of-life care in Brazil is imperative also in the legal realm, with the acceptance, in the therapeutic choice, of the natural path of death at the end of our existence: from the search for cure, to care; from quantity to quality of the remaining life.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:31:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Josivan de Souza.pdf: 1811956 bytes, checksum: 50c4c25039cfe4374007229ddd8ef9f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this thesis is discussing the otherness´s field and, therefore, the living together at school as a communitarian ethos to promote social transformation. Starting from the fundamental statement of the student´s otherness, just like the professor´s, what is expected from this thesis is the theoretical discussion about a curriculum that considers the course of the Other on her daily routine, which demands the curriculum itself to be another in order to put a ground for this purpose, I support myself: on the philosophical contributions of Emmanuel Lévinas and his statement to recognize the Other as someone absolutely incomprehensible and impossible to be considered as just a thing, as well as his critics towards the ontology; on the philosophical constructions of Enrique Dussel and his critics to the modernity as the Eurocentric dissimulator of the Latin-American s otherness, rendered by the solipsistic and conqueror European culture; and on Paulo Freire, who criticizes the oppressive and banking pedagogy and proposes the "education as a practice of freedom" and a pedagogy which, born from the oppressed, produces itself at the same time as produces liberty and critical consciousness. From this point on, this thesis supports the building of a curriculum to the otherness, as an act of liberation, criticizing the reproductive-banking Eurocentric and authoritarian curricular activities, developed by the modern schools and still present at the school´s life. The construction of a curriculum to the otherness is a condition sine qua non to the social transformations and to the Ethics of Liberation / Esta tese tem por objetivo a discussão no campo da outreidade e, por assim o ser, da convivência na escola como ethos comunitário e de transformação social. Partindo da afirmação fundamental da outreidade do aluno, bem como do professor, o que se deseja nesta tese é a discussão teórica em torno de um currículo que considere o percurso do Outro em seu quefazer cotidiano, o que exigirá que o próprio currículo seja outro. Para fundamentar a discussão, apoio-me: nas contribuições filosóficas de Emmanuel Lévinas e a exigência do reconhecimento do Outro como absolutamente incompreensível e impossível de ser coisificado, bem como suas críticas à ontologia; nas construções filosóficas de Enrique Dussel e sua crítica à modernidade eurocêntrica e encobridora da outreidade latino-americana, violentada pela cultura solipsista e conquistadora europeia; e em Paulo Freire, crítico da pedagogia opressora e bancária e realizador de uma educação como prática da liberdade e de uma pedagogia que, nascida do oprimido, faz-se ao mesmo tempo em que produz liberdade e consciência crítica. A partir daí, esta tese defende a elaboração de um currículo para a outreidade, como prática da liberdade, criticando as práticas curriculares reprodutivista-bancárias, eurocêntricas e totalizadoras, desenvolvidas pela escola moderna e atualmente ainda presentes no cotidiano escolar. A construção de um currículo para a outreidade é condição sine qua non da realização das transformações sociais e da Ética da Libertação

<p>All my short stories have been written in an intuitive way according to which no outline of characters, intrigue or plot was made in advance. A consequence of this process is that not even myself as the author is aware of the meaning of the texts and therefore I too have to interpret the stories. Because of the character of the text, I use an analysis of archetypes according to C. G. Jung’s analytic psychology. In addition to this I also use concepts from hermeneutical and existential phenomenology, represented here by Viktor Frankl, Emmanuel Lévinas, Martin Heidegger and Paul Ricoeur. The Jungian analysis shows that the content in the short story <em>Sjön</em> (The lake) in a high degree is structured in a way that correlates very well with this method. When it comes to the phenomenological thinkers, several of their concepts are applicable in my short story. In the philosophy of Frankl and Heidegger, the concept of <em>conscience</em> is a warning to the individual to take care of his life, which is a possible interpretation of the anxiety of my main character.  When it comes to his seeking for the significance of an important earlier event in his life the concept of <em>memory</em> in the discourse of Ricoeur also bring some light to the understanding. Finally, the concept of <em>the Other</em> in Lévinas´ philosophy can explain his longing for a reestablishing of a meaning in his life.</p><p> </p>

This study constitutes an attempt to bring the notion of stupidity into relation with ethics and creativity, through a reading of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Employing Emmanuel Lévinas' theories on ethics - the responsible responsiveness in regard to the Other and the concept of the Face - the objective is to demonstrate how stupidity, conceived as lack of control and knowledge, functions as a precondition for the ethical relation between humans, as well as that of the individual to her creativity.

All my short stories have been written in an intuitive way according to which no outline of characters, intrigue or plot was made in advance. A consequence of this process is that not even myself as the author is aware of the meaning of the texts and therefore I too have to interpret the stories. Because of the character of the text, I use an analysis of archetypes according to C. G. Jung’s analytic psychology. In addition to this I also use concepts from hermeneutical and existential phenomenology, represented here by Viktor Frankl, Emmanuel Lévinas, Martin Heidegger and Paul Ricoeur. The Jungian analysis shows that the content in the short story Sjön (The lake) in a high degree is structured in a way that correlates very well with this method. When it comes to the phenomenological thinkers, several of their concepts are applicable in my short story. In the philosophy of Frankl and Heidegger, the concept of conscience is a warning to the individual to take care of his life, which is a possible interpretation of the anxiety of my main character.  When it comes to his seeking for the significance of an important earlier event in his life the concept of memory in the discourse of Ricoeur also bring some light to the understanding. Finally, the concept of the Other in Lévinas´ philosophy can explain his longing for a reestablishing of a meaning in his life.