Orientador: Renato Jose Pinto Ortiz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T04:02:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sachet_Zenaide_M.pdf: 874338 bytes, checksum: 8356f0a2686e3cf92f381b295a6951b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Segundo Humberto Maturana, na história da biologia, por vezes se ressaltou o indivíduo em detrimento da espécie e por outras, a espécie em detrimento do indivíduo. Sua proposta teórica de legitimar a espécie e o indivíduo ao mesmo tempo, que se origina no conceito de autopoiesis, é o que pretendo aprofundar neste trabalho, por intermédio do estudo das idéias que estão na base de sua teoria, a Biologia do Conhecer. Seguindo os fundamentos conceituais da Biologia do Conhecer tratarei, portanto, dos dois domínios operacionais da existência dos seres vivos. O primeiro, o domínio da dinâmica estrutural interna, da identidade do ser que conhece e onde acontece a autopoiesis, e o segundo, o da dinâmica relacional, onde existimos propriamente como seres vivos na realização de nosso viver em interações recorrentes. No tratamento do segundo domínio poderemos, então, especificar o que constitui a possibilidade de diálogo com o autor, já que trataremos da dinâmica dos seres humanos, que vivem imersos na linguagem / Abstract: According to Humberto Maturana, within the history of biology, at times, the individual is given more prominence than the species; at others, the species is given more than the individual. Maturana.s theoretical proposition of simultaneously legitimizing both the species and the individual, which is at the root of the autopoiesis concept, is what I intend to investigate, by studying the ideas that lay the groundwork for his theory: the Biology of Cognition. By uncovering the conceptual foundations of the Biology of Cognition, I shall, therefore, explore the two operational domains of existence of living organisms: the first domain of the internal structural dynamic, of the identity of the being that knows and where autopoiesis occurs; and the second domain of the relational dynamic, where we effectively exist as living beings in the fulfillment of our living within recursive interactions. The treatment of the second domain can, thus, specify that which constitutes the possibility of dialoguing with the author, since we shall be dealing with the dynamic of human beings, who live immersed in language / Mestrado / Teoria Sociológica / Mestre em Sociologia

We find ourselves, as interpreters and listeners, living, discerning, prioritizing, asking, and answering questions in and through particular communal and theological traditions. As the discerning and prioritizing process is inevitable, we suggest to move the question about prioritizing from the context of ‘privileged access or interpretation' to the context of the ‘preferences' of the believing communities. We imply by this ‘relocation' the interdependent relationships between believing communities and their beliefs and practices. We propose, following Maturana's epistemology, three steps to argue about the dynamic and interdependent relationships among believers, communities, and their beliefs and practices. We affirm, first, that whenever we engage in the discerning process we have before us two paths of explanations. These two paths place the believers in a central place in their task for deciding for one of the options. The recognition about the interpreters' active participation suggests the crucial role of the believers and their preferences. The crucial point in the process of discerning and deciding for one of the paths is the type of believing communities that we would like to promote and conserve. We suggest, second, that the proposal of answers and the acceptation of those answers as explanations imply the active participation of both interpreters and listeners. We propose the interdependence relationships between our existence in particular believing communities and those questions and answers that we prioritize, ignore, and conserve. We claim, third, that in language or in and through our dialogical spaces we distinguish and coordinate the many and possible dimensions of our existence and relationships. As believers, in and through the contexts of our believing communities we discern, prioritize, and conserve the accents of our beliefs and practices. We stress the crucial role of the preferences as the believing communities prioritize and conserve the ‘nature' and ‘course' of their particular communities.