Introdução à Filosofia Quotes

“Para um grande número de pensadores, há órbitas do ser que só podem ser captadas por vias emocionais. Já Pascal havia lembrado que “o coração tem razões que a razão desconhece” — e disso sabem os enamorados, os que amam e não sabem dar a razão de seu amor. Pois bem, aquela afirmação genial de Pascal encontra hoje notável desenvolvimento, especialmente no que se refere ao chamado mundo dos valores, declarado inatingível só por atos de razão. Os valores do belo, do verdadeiro ou do justo somente seriam captáveis em virtude de experiências emocionais, em um contacto direto de ordem sentimental. [...] Não se resolve um problema de estética em termos puramente lógicos, e o mesmo ocorre no mundo jurídico ou político.”
― Miguel Reale, Introdução à Filosofia

“According to Aristotelian-Thomistic doctrine, human reason has the capacity to penetrate what being is in itself. Philosophy would be, first and foremost, a theory of being as being, an ontology, taken in its broadest sense, as a synonym for metaphysics, the only study capable of offering us the foundations of particular knowledge, both on the speculative and practical levels, that is, of the sciences and ethics, aesthetics and history. All sciences would be conditioned by metaphysics as their primary explanation. This highlights the radical difference between the positivist point of view, which reduces philosophy to a knowledge of phenomena, and the Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding, which presents philosophy as possible knowledge of the thing in itself, of “being as being”, according to Aristotle's succinct statement in his Metaphysics.”
― Miguel Reale, Introdução à Filosofia

“Philosophy, in order to be faithful to the achievements of scientific knowledge, must first and foremost be a critique of science itself, of the conditions of its certainty. If we want to unite the different forms of knowledge, this integration presupposes criteria of appreciation and estimation, and more precisely, an inquiry into the universal validity of the sciences and their logical presuppositions.”
― Miguel Reale, Introdução à Filosofia