Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DANIEL RODRIGUES BRAZ

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STUDENT : DANIEL RODRIGUES BRAZ
DATE: 27/10/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: On line
TITLE:

Universal metaphysics, according to Paul Deussen - Chapter 1: The elements of metaphysics

PAGES: 90
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: História da Filosofia
SUMMARY:

First, a biographical introduction will be made, in which the historical genesis of Paul Deussen's (1845-1919) philosophical thought will be briefly reconstituted, which culminates in his first work, 'The Elements of Metaphysics', first published in 1877. We will see here, above all, how this author's choice for a philosophical career is the product of two previous interests: a theological one, which persisted even after his disillusionment with the church, and a scientific one, the result of his philological work, especially with Sanskrit literature. We will also mention what kind of personal influence the young Nietzsche would have had in defining the intellectual path of Deussen, his friend. We will then turn more directly to the analysis of this work itself. Previous comments will deal with how to define the philosophy of Deussen, which is characterized by high fidelity to the thought of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), although, even so, not as a mere copy, but as an original appropriation. We will reflect on his conciliatory universalist vision, which, on the one hand, was inspired by the philological theory developed by Franz Bopp (1791-1867) about a "universal grammar", and, on the other hand, by the doctrine of transcendental idealism, founded by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and "finished" by Schopenhauer. We will present – and comment on, below – our complete translation of the preface to the first edition of 'The Elements', which preaches a "point of view of reconciliation of all oppositions", in which all philosophical and religious doctrines produced in all times and places would sound harmoniously, and in which science and religion would no longer conflict. According to Deussen, this perspective would have been achieved by Kantian-Schopenhauerian idealism, which is why it becomes the main theoretical basis of his own thinking. We will also analyze the preliminary considerations made by him regarding the difference between physics and metaphysics. We will provisionally present the summary of the content of this work made by Franz Mockrauer, in his article published in the ninth yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society (1920), in our translation. Finally, we will analyze a second preface, to the third edition (1902), in which the author makes a supplement in defense of idealism, as a perspective that surpasses, but does not exclude, that of realism.

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