O próximo e o mal: um estudo da parábola do Bom Samaritano na leitura hermenêutica e filosófica de Paul Ricoeur

• Main Author: Smarjassi, Celia Marilda
• Publication Date: 2011
• Format: Doctoral thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Download full: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1831
• topic: Parábola do Bom Samaritano; Próximo; Mal; Ética; Hermenêutica; The parable of the Good Samaritan; Neighbor; Evil; Ethics; Hermeneutic; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

This dissertation presents a study on the Parable of the Good Samaritan with Paul Ricoeur s philosophical reflections as its theoretical reference. The methodology adopted in order to pursue the investigation relied upon a theoretical and empirically exploratory research, using interviews as means of investigation. The study has been divided in five chapters. The first two chapters are devoted to the presentation of Paul Ricoeur s intellectual profile and his philosophical and biblical hermeneutic theories, the latest applied to the parable genre. Once the presentation of both the author and his theories is completed, there is an analysis of the parable through a five sided approach. First, there is an exegetical analysis. Then, there is an attempt at interpreting the narrative from the author s biblical hermeneutics point of view. Subsequently, it is the philosophical reading of the narrative as proposed by the author in his essay on the socius and the neighbor that is brought into light. Exteriorizing the popular meaning of the parable and the nature of the concept of neighbor that Christians have elaborated in present times within a specific group of subjects represents the fourth side of the proposed approach to the study of the parable. Through the subjects views one may conclude that Ricoeur s critical interpretation presents the researcher with valuable tools, once it leads to re-thinking all solutions or comprehensions about one s neighbor, in a way that is not strictly restricted to a naïve interpretation of the narrative but that leans towards a more solid scientific construction. Finally the fifth side of the proposed approach to the study of the parable refers to a reflection on the matter of evil, as it is presented in the narrative. At this moment, the study s aim is to establish the clear relation between the essay on the socius and the neighbor , in which the author presents a radically philosophical reading of the narrative, and his reflections on evil and its ontological and practical tendencies as traced in his work Evil: A Challenge to Philosophy and Theology. At this point of the investigation Ricoeur s thoughts on his small ethics are presented. Therefore, it can be concluded that both reflections, on evil and on small ethics, are relevant to the comprehension of said parable and to the neighbor-socius dialectics