doctoralThesis
Antecedentes histórico-filosóficos da problemática do tempo e do mal no Freiheitsschrift de Schelling: aproximações gnósticas
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2010-06-14Registro en:
FERNANDES, Edrisi de Araújo. Antecedentes histórico-filosóficos
da problemática do tempo e do mal no Freiheitsschrift de Schelling:
aproximações gnósticas. 2010. 279 f. Tese (Doutorado em Metafísica) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2010.
Autor
Fernandes, Edrisi de Araújo
Resumen
This thesis aims better understanding the relation between time and evil in Schelling s
Freiheitsschrift, having its starting point in approximations from Gnosticism. For that
purpose, before approaching that relation, it is reviewed (chapter I) the question of
Gnosticism, a strain of thought essentially concerned with the problem of time and
permeated by the belief in an evil nature of creation, and which is alleged to have
significantly influenced certain ideas of Schelling. An evaluation of approximations
between Gnosticism, gnosis and German thought follows (chapter II), as well as an
evaluation of Schellingian aproximations to Gnosticism (chapter III). Then, the
Freiheitsschrift is analysed as the text where Schelling, having taken hold of a very
distinct appropriation of Gnosticism, goes beyond Kantian theodicy (chapter IV). Some
interrogations about whether key ideas of Schellingian philosophy (about gnosis,
creation, duality, time, and evil) are conceived in a way that is essentially different from
that of historic Gnosticism, despite the much that has been said to the contrary, are then
addressed (chapter V). The proposal of a Platonic-Plotinian key to the understanding
of the relations between time and evil in the Freiheitsschrift comes next (chapter VI),
and then gives way to the concluding remarks (chapter VII). We perceive that
Gnosticism and Neoplatonism are systems of thought that sometimes converge, and that
German thought is one of the places of this convergence. Notwithstanding this
perception, it is possible to affirm that Schellingian thought, with its valorization of time
and of a certain perception of evil, is essentially anti-gnostic, despite some contrary
observations