The relations between the thought of Hannah Arendt, Leonardo Boff, Max Scheler and Edgar Morin in order to Combat Oppression, The Banality of Evil and Promote Human Emancipation

Abstract

The relations between the thought of Arendt, Boff, Scheler, and Morin, although odd, have in common the sense of fighting oppression, each one in their own way, and promoting human emancipation. Arendt had her personal and intellectual life marked by the oppression she witnessed and suffered with the advent of totalitarian regimes in Europe, and her intellectual attempt to study and understand this phenomenon. Leonardo Boff will have his personal and intellectual life marked by the oppression he witnessed and experienced from the military dictatorships that ruled Brazil and Latin America in the 60s and 70s In his third phase, Boff (2010) states that currently there are two wounds that burn: the wound of immense poverty and the environmental wound For Boff, this scenario is clearly founded on a cosmology that is soon to be overcome, the one Boff calls the Cosmology of Domination, based on an anthropocentrism founded on instrumental-analytical reason Edgar Morin will influence Leonardo Boff's thinking, offering, from the 1970s, new perspectives for the understanding of epistemology and thinking itself, known as complex thinking, which will create the basis for the awakening of the ecological paradigm or ecological or systemic thinking. According to Scheler (1986) in order to understand the error and contradictions in the various traditions of philosophical anthropology. Max Scheler uses the methodological conception "tabula rasa", coined by John Locke (1632 - 1704). For Scheler, it is necessary to make a tabula rasa of all the anthropological traditions in order to systematize a new philosophical anthropology. For Scheler, the beginning of this method is the knowledge of the history of man's self-consciousness, and later, to understand the ideas of man and their correlation with the historical and anthropological conception. This work aimed to show how the thinkers Arendt, Boff, Morin, and Scheler articulate and propose, each one in his own way, a universal proposal with the purpose of overcoming the problems of their times. It was found that there is convergence between the philosophical and epistemological conceptions in their thoughts in order to combat oppression and promote Human Emancipation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/tfisdwv1-125