LA ONTOLOGÍA DE LESSING Y LAS METÁFORAS DE LA DESHUMANIZACIÓN

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  • Agustín Andreu Rodrigo
Keywords: metáfora, virtud, humanidad, religión, verdad, letra, espíritu

Abstract

This article exposes and analyzes G.E.Lessing's social ontology, especially as it appears in the Dramatic Poem Nathan the Wise. Human life and affairs are characterized by a polarity between the essential human conditon and the various religious and national peculiarities. Religious and patriotic fanatism deform true humanity and make those different paths lead against each other, while they schould instead carry mankind to the same haben, that of the sense of humanness. Lessing addresses this problematique by using methaphors, many of them in the form of parabbles or allegories: clothes and ministries for civic vitues; colours and perfumes for pedagogical and local facilities; coins for the truth; a building with numerous windows for illumination and doors for free entrance for wise and tolerant governement; etc. Lessing places in the forfront of his discussion the problems of intolerance between the three Abrahamic religions and their hearty and mutual enmity.

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Agustín Andreu Rodrigo

Instituto de Filosofía. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
How to Cite
Andreu Rodrigo, A. (1994). LA ONTOLOGÍA DE LESSING Y LAS METÁFORAS DE LA DESHUMANIZACIÓN. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (8), 39–54. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/13351
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