Contigência e imaginação em Blaise Pascal

• Main Author: Martins, Andrei Venturini
• Publication Date: 2006
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Download full: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1991
• topic: Pecado; Contigência; Imaginação; Pascal, Blaise -- 1623-1662 -- Critica e interpretacao; Agostinho, Santo -- Bispo de Hipona -- 354-430 -- Conceito de livre arbitrio; Pecado original; Livre arbitrio e determinismo; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

In this study we will try to corroborate the general hypothesis that we support, which says that the Adamic sin launches all humanity in a contingency state, which is, however, verified by the effects of the imagination. In the first chapter our concern is historical and, for this reason, we will initiate investigating the beginning of the controversy about the grace in the middle of century V. Saint Augustine will be our object of inquiry: we will deal with some mannering and literal changes of the bishop of Hipona in function of his conversion to the Christianism and his conception of the free will in the discussion with the Manicheans. Later, we will discern the concepts of the original sin and free will in Pelagio and Saint Augustine, in such a way to perceive how the Augustinian conception of the free will changes according to the different contexts that the doctor of grace is inserted. After that we will have a historical jump and will analyze the sprouting of the Jansenism, trying to identify how the discussion about the grace is retaken by the end of century XVI and during century XVII, for soon after that, point out Blaise Pascal, our object of study in this theological complaint, as well as the emergent philosophical quarrel in century XVII. In the second chapter we will analyze in a deeper way the theological aspect of Pascal s work, what will make possible to us to describe the human condition before and after the Adamic sin and to perceive the consequences of the sin for all humanity. One of them is the contingency, characterized by the lack of discernment between the truth and the falseness, so that the human knowledge of the world and about himself is immersed in the contingency, which would, however, reveal in a special way in the imagination, deceitful power that is not a mark of the truth nor of the falseness. Thus we will initiate our third and last chapter, in which we will punctuate the effects of the functioning imagination and will perceive that the reason, joined intrinsically to the imagination, when doing its job discloses the contingency. However, Pascal enhances that some experts in imagination make use of this power to persuade, to construct concepts, to produce laws and to keep the public space reasonably organized. That s the way we understand that the Adamic sin atavistically transmitted to all humanity causes the contingency that manifests itself in the effects of the deceitful power of the imagination