Ética e justiça no pensamento de Pedro Abelardo

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Tondinelli, Tiago
• Orientador(a): De Boni, Luis Alberto
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: FILOSOFIA MEDIEVAL; ABELARDO, PEDRO - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; ÉTICA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3417

Peter Abelard is considered an important thinker of the twelfth Century, mainly due to his theories about ethics and the consequences that can be understood concerning law and justice. He believes that a real moral action must be based on the real will of a person and can never be created only by using the principles from the results present in the society or in the personal life. According to his moral ideas, justice depends on ethics because men develop their ethical life using both foundations: the subjective aspect (consent and will) and the objective one (the law of the Christian Doctrine). The interaction among the personal affairs and the moral limits deserves the defense of the “individuality” and can’t be reduced to a simple lecture of moral that relates to only one reference of right or wrong. His examples created to discuss ethics, moral and justice are important in Medieval Times which can be used constantly nowadays for the understanding of the social, moral and juridical aspects. This is clear because the contemporary society is lost in useless values, in monetary purposes and in false dreams only focused in temporary benefits. In Abelard’s time, the problem was to discover a good interaction in the influence of Latin philosophy, the rhetoric and logic of Cicero and Aristotle, and the ideas of Christ, showing the necessity to think of the limits among liberty, will and dreams. Nowadays, we must respect the same necessity to build a great temple where people will understand their actions only as a part of a morality focused in their individual culture and not as an immutable truth used to justify selfishness and hatred.