O escândalo da razão diante do paradoxo da fé em Soren Kierkegaard

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the tension between faith and reason in the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, whose interpretive core the concept of paradox. The study discusses the most fundamental questions of this problem. At first, which is to introduce the paradox of faith, it will be considered the criticism by Kierkegaard to the Hegelian synthesis between faith and reason. Referring to the first section of the Concluding Unscientific Postscript, you will notice, in this point, the refusal of Kierkegaard to a faith founded historically and rationally as well as the rejection of a system that, in the context of existence intend the full truth. Thus the philosopher of Copenhagen outlines quite clearly the limits of rational knowledge. In the second route, the research will focus on the analysis of the nature of faith, based, above all, the flagship category of the knight of faith presented by Kierkegaard in Fear and Trembling. The analysis of the notion of faith become essential to discuss more directly related concepts, namely, the notion of Leap, the relationship between faith and the va rious existential categories - Resignation, Suffering, Anguish and Loneliness – as well as the notion of absolute paradox and the relationship between faith and scandal. Finally, stressing once again the gap between the author of Edifying speeches and Hegelian thought, it will be discussed-the permanence of the paradox. In Kierkegaard, as we shall see, the paradox is not seized by and revealed by reason. It persists and is expressed in various existential categories. See It will, therefore, that the faith Knight is always in tension, is between anguish and the building, whether between risk and conviction, or even between the teleological suspension of ethics and duty to love the neighbor. In relation to the infinite, the Paradox is the companion that packs the Knight in his finite existence.