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Comunicação e Ética: O sistema semiótico de Charles ... - Ubi Thesis

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✐✐✐✐Ética e heteronomia 415ralização completa, a completa regeneração do sentimento, é a religião, que époesia, mas poesia completada”. 40Compreen<strong>de</strong>-se agora porque <strong>de</strong>fen<strong>de</strong> Peirce que “a Lógica radica no princípiosocial” 41 e que aquele que se recusa a i<strong>de</strong>ntificar-se com os fins da comunida<strong>de</strong>in<strong>de</strong>finida, 42 é sumamente ilógico nas suas inferências. 43 Para ser lógico,porém, não é necessário ao homem heroísmo ou auto-sacrifício pessoal,basta que se i<strong>de</strong>ntifique com essas qualida<strong>de</strong>s no seu semelhante, reconhecendoa sua possibilida<strong>de</strong>. “This makes logicality attainable enough. Sometimeswe can personally attain to heroism (. . . ) In other cases we can only imitatethe virtue”. 44 Os atributos da logicalida<strong>de</strong> radicam então no sentimento,e para ser lógico o homem <strong>de</strong>ve cumprir três condições: interesse numa comunida<strong>de</strong>in<strong>de</strong>finida, reconhecimento da possibilida<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>sse interesse ser supremo,e esperança na continuação ilimitada da activida<strong>de</strong> intelectual. Peircecompara estas condições ao famoso trio <strong>de</strong> S. Paulo que constitui as três virtu<strong>de</strong>steológicas e “os maiores e melhores dons do espírito”: Carida<strong>de</strong>, Fé eEsperança. “Nem o Antigo nem o Novo testamento são livros sobre lógica daciência, mas o último é certamente a mais elevada autorida<strong>de</strong> no que toca àsdisposições <strong>de</strong> coração que o homem <strong>de</strong>ve ter”. 4540 . Collected Papers, 1.673-1.676.41 . Collected Papers, 2.654.42 . Essa comunida<strong>de</strong> que o homem <strong>de</strong>ve abraçar não po<strong>de</strong> ser limitada, mas esten<strong>de</strong>-sea todas as raças <strong>de</strong> seres com quem possamos estabelecer relações intelectuais, e ultrapassatodas as eras e fronteiras. Cf. Collected Papers, 2.654.43 . “Nor must any synechist say, "I am altogether myself, and not at all you."If you embracesynechism, you must abjure this metaphysics of wickedness. In the first place, your neighborsare, in a measure, yourself, and in far greater measure than, without <strong>de</strong>ep studies in psychology,you would believe. Really, the selfhood you like to attribute to yourself is, for the most part,the vulgarest <strong>de</strong>lusion of vanity. In the second place, all men who resemble you and are inanalogous circumstances are, in a measure, yourself, though not quite in the same way inwhich your neighbors are you. There is still another direction in which the barbaric conceptionof personal i<strong>de</strong>ntity must be broa<strong>de</strong>ned. A Brahmanical hymn begins as follows: "I am thatpure and infinite Self, who am bliss, eternal, manifest, all-pervading, and who am the substrateof all that owns name and form."This expresses more than humiliation, – the utter swallowingup of the poor individual self in the Spirit of prayer. All communication from mind to mind isthrough continuity of being. A man is capable of having assigned to him a rôle in the drama ofcreation, and so far as he loses himself in that rôle, – no matter how humble it may be, – so farhe i<strong>de</strong>ntifies himself with its Author”, Collected Papers, 7.571-7.572..44 . Collected Papers, 2.654.45 . Collected Papers, 2.655.www.labcom.pt✐✐✐✐

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