A morte como categoria filosófica: finitude e determinação em Feuerbach

Abstract

This article is subject part of the research project Critical Review-Materialist Bioethics, which includes among its objectives trace the philosophical tradition materialistic times in which certain key concepts for reflection, the preparation and the bioethical discourse were addressed in some measure or made problems. This paper analyzes the properly philosophical character of mortality at the thought of Feuerbach. Delimits to the constitutive role that thinking about death plays in its anthropological development. In particular it will examine Thoughts about death and immortality, set of texts published anonymously in 1830. Here, the death appears having a specific function demarcation of concrete being of men in the opposite way to that observed in the Christian religiosity sustained in individual immortality notion. Theologically, the human essence is set in a fictional reality set for beyond the natural concrete. In this sense, human excellence could only be updated because the soul has denied his constituency by sensitive and carnal. Feuerbach, in contrast, aims to anchor the human dignity of assertive way, as an affirmation of a being-there objectively existing in the exact extent that assumes mortality as a positive delimitation of the individual in its connection to the genre, which continues and assimilates personhood finite in its virtual infinity. Recognition of positive content of individual mortality sets in motion a reworking of understanding of anthropological determinations of the individual, based on the recognition that essential bond, since only the community founded on gender, the sharing of a common natural essence with similar gain individuals the opportunity to claim their qualities. Understanding this immediately finite nature of existence of men directly opens up the possibility of reflection on other elements such as the particular determination of the person while that person, the real significance of temporality as building a specific history of experience, and not as mere Abstract passage of time, among other thematic complex.