Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo
<p>The objective of the present article is to support the idea that Machado de Assis’ work conforms well to what may be called a non-religious spirituality. For that, the article’s main focus is the analysis of the short story “O Segredo do Bonzo: Capítulo Inédito de Fernão Mendes Pinto”, publ...
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| description | <p>The objective of the present article is to support the idea that Machado de Assis’ work conforms well to what may be called a non-religious spirituality. For that, the article’s main focus is the analysis of the short story “O Segredo do Bonzo: Capítulo Inédito de Fernão Mendes Pinto”, published in 1882’s collection titled <em>Papéis Avulsos</em>, where the main principles of that spirituality, which is spread all over his work, are given in a nutshell. In a first moment, we analise the intertextuality between Machado’s short story “O Segredo do Bonzo” and Portuguese Renaissance writer’s travelogue <em>Peregrinação</em> and the Machado’s nineteen century critique of the west’s main universalizing proposals: Christianity, scientificity and Enlightenment. In a second moment, we analise the philosophical implications of the primacy given to ‘opinion’ as an existential foundation and as a constitutive element of reality, in a context of close proximity with the soteriological traditions of ancient Greek skepticism, on the one hand, and Buddhism, on the other. A critic of religion, specially of Christian religion, Machado’s ‘accidental’ association with Buddhism is symptomatic of a very peculiar form of non-religious spirituality.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acf3ed1fee1d412092b09f8adfbd28a22022-12-21T19:02:02ZengPontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas GeraisHorizonte2175-58412014-09-0112358338505153Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do BonzoDilip Loundo0Teresinha Vânia Zimbrão da Silva1Departamento de Ciência da Religião, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora-MGDepartamento de Letras, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora<p>The objective of the present article is to support the idea that Machado de Assis’ work conforms well to what may be called a non-religious spirituality. For that, the article’s main focus is the analysis of the short story “O Segredo do Bonzo: Capítulo Inédito de Fernão Mendes Pinto”, published in 1882’s collection titled <em>Papéis Avulsos</em>, where the main principles of that spirituality, which is spread all over his work, are given in a nutshell. In a first moment, we analise the intertextuality between Machado’s short story “O Segredo do Bonzo” and Portuguese Renaissance writer’s travelogue <em>Peregrinação</em> and the Machado’s nineteen century critique of the west’s main universalizing proposals: Christianity, scientificity and Enlightenment. In a second moment, we analise the philosophical implications of the primacy given to ‘opinion’ as an existential foundation and as a constitutive element of reality, in a context of close proximity with the soteriological traditions of ancient Greek skepticism, on the one hand, and Buddhism, on the other. A critic of religion, specially of Christian religion, Machado’s ‘accidental’ association with Buddhism is symptomatic of a very peculiar form of non-religious spirituality.</p>http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/7767espiritualidadeceticismobudismoMachado de Assis. |
| spellingShingle | Dilip Loundo Teresinha Vânia Zimbrão da Silva Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo Horizonte espiritualidade ceticismo budismo Machado de Assis. |
| title | Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo |
| title_full | Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo |
| title_fullStr | Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo |
| title_full_unstemmed | Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo |
| title_short | Skeptic Spirituality or the Accidental Buddhism of Machado de Assis's O Segredo do Bonzo |
| title_sort | skeptic spirituality or the accidental buddhism of machado de assis s o segredo do bonzo |
| topic | espiritualidade ceticismo budismo Machado de Assis. |
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