A exigência religiosa e os limites da ética: considerações acerca da continuidade ou ruptura entre os estágios ético e religioso em Kierkegaard

Abstract

The present study, based on the theory of Kierkegaard´s stages, has as a proposal to expound the ethical and religious existence in Kierkegaard, considering critically the religious exigency and the limits of the ethics. Putting the relation between the ethic and the religious, Kierkegaard with the use of the pseudonyms shows several conceptions. It was searched, then, to identify if and until what point one can think, starting from certain writings of Kierkegaard, on a conciliatory mention, notably, between the ethical and religious stages. To complete this analysis, they were surveyed secondarily the critical and studious authors who could support a confirmation or an information of the antagonism between the referred stages. In other words, it was wanted to clear if there was a total exclusion or if it could be thought about conciliation coming from some essential relation, intrinsic between the ethical and religious spheres.