Modos de habitar a terra: o estatuto da linguagem religiosa em Gianni Vattimo e Rubem Alves

Abstract

This work discusses the ways which religious language can be as a way of inhabiting the earth from the thought of Gianni Vattimo and Rubem Alves. We defend the notion that religious language is ambiguous and this is evidenced in metaphysical and dogmatic ways and ethical and aesthetic ways of inhabiting the earth. The first ones are generated by a violence that is intrinsic to them, and it is reproduced through the interruption of dialogue, the imposition of ultimate truths, intolerance and repression. We interpret the configuration of the relationship between language and foundation, in these metaphysical and dogmatic modes, as the Presence of presence, because they establish a last foundation that reinforces the presence as annulment of future and permanence of truths. The ethical and aesthetic modes are proposed to overcome the first modes, which resist the violence that they generate through a weakening of the structures and the symbolic imagination of religion. At this point, Vattimo and Alves turn away, because the proposal that the first formulates turns strictly for a hermeneutic ethics, while Alves proposes an aesthetic path. These modes are characterized by the Presence of absence, since they establish their own foundations, however, without interpreting them as exclusive and ultimate. In this way, we point out several ambiguities in the religious language that is simultaneously the foundation and abyss on which the human being inhabits the earth and builds his world.