Valores em conflito: contribuições do pluralismo de Isaiah Berlin ao estudo das relações entre “religioso” e “secular” no debate público contemporâneo

• Autor(a) principal: Goudinho, Jonathan
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/20382
• topic: Isaiah Berlin. Pluralismo de valor. Religião e contemporaneidade. Conflitos entre religioso e secular.; Conflitos entre religioso e secular; Secularização; Modernidade; Isaiah Berlin

The contemporary public debate is permeated by diverse challenges to social life, especially because of the plurality of groups and convictions that are articulated in decision-making spaces. In Western societies, because of the process of secularization, there are no more exclusive systems of values that are capable of giving full meaning to the human experience in the community. In this way, the tensions related to the relationship between the “religious” and “secular” domains receive new contours in the public discussion and academic studies. From the context of the diversity of beliefs and values, this dissertation introduces in the field of Religious Studies the thought of the Russian-Jewish philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), who developed a doctrine of value pluralism. For Berlin, a notable advocate of liberalism and one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, pluralism is a principle of crucial importance for contemporary society as it postulates the coexistence of different systems of moral values and conceptions of good without trying to escape of the inevitable conflict between such values and conceptions. Berlin's formulation, situated at the intersection of political philosophy and the history of ideas, indicates that moral values can be equally valid and yet incompatible and incommensurable, resulting in conflicts that do not allow for resolution without reference to particular contexts of decision. Therefore, from a theoretical approach of a conceptual and analytical nature, we seek to interpret the Isaiah Berlin's pluralistic notion in an attempt to find possible contributions of the theoretical body developed by the author to the study of the relations between 'religious' and “secular” in the contemporary public debate. In this way, value pluralism emerges as a valid theoretical system to foster academic approaches to value conflicts within plural societies.