Entre asas e chumbo: metafísica e controle das artes da palavra, de Platão a Baumgarten

Abstract

This work aims at characterizing the conceptual and disciplinary relationship between metaphysics, philosophy and the arts of words poetics and rhetoric , which are seen composing a lasting tradition of control and functionalizing strategies, conducted by the philosophical rationality, upon the discourses. Part of our main purpose is to presente such a frame, as well as to observe, within the philosophical discourse and its metaphysical ratio, the possibility to substantiate and legitimate the poetical as experience, perception and thought on the world and the human being. In this sense, we assume a long-term perspective, intending to perceive this conceptual moving as process, and not as an event, therefore taking position against a comprehension which ascribe to the Romanticism the rupture with the rationalist philosophical culture, than pointing to a rearrangement of relations between poetry and philopsophy. We assume, thus, that Aesthetics, as it was formalized by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, takes the poem as perfect sensate discourse , analogous of reason and sensibility, by activating metaphysical elements arisen from the rationalist tradition itself, readed and reworked by Spinoza and Leibniz.