A busca da compreensão do humano e seu mundo

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the reflection on the social function performed by magic, myth and religion in building men comprehension of the world, through an ontological and materialistic perspective, by analyzing how these different moments in thought process and conscience of man merge, and the procedural development of evolution from prehuman being to social being, end up simultaneously moving toward the building process of world representations, assisting and justifying sociocultural practices of social formations in a constant cumbersome process.