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Vol. 4 No. 7 (2017): 2º Semestre de 2017

GASTON BACHELARD: SOBRE A MUTABILIDADE DA RAZÃO

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Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate, from the epistemological thinking of Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), how the Reason can be discontinuous, provided that the problem about the dynamicity of scientific concepts. Thought has an open structure that makes it dynamic, having the ability to counteract the explanations that claim to be definitive. It is in this sense that the sciences must watch over their historical ancestors and pay attention to the actuality of the problems addressed, in order not to hinder the thinking. From this perspective, the Reason presented by the bachelardian epistemology has a discontinuous history. It is a reason that turns against itself and is constantly reforming, eliminating the obstacles related to concepts sedimented in thought. Reason causes revolutions. She acts by watching, inventing and defending her values insofar as she is contrary to her historical ancestor. Then, Bachelard's thinking highlights an active reason, which, in exercising its creative role, breaks with the forms of immobility. Hence the new rationalism in the contemporary sciences can be understood as a constructive rationalism, because Reason creates new realities and institutes unpublished views on the world.

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