Heidegger e o pensamento escolástico entre os anos 1919 e 1930

Observações e reflexões criticas

Abstract

From Heidegger’s “first writings”, a growing criticism to the scholastic thought is evidenced. However, such a criticism comes from modern and contemporary philosophy and not from a critical reading of the medieval authors. The criticism to the scholastic though is immerse in the historic and philosophical context of Heidegger’s academic formation. In this historical context, putting into practice the method of “destruction” of western metaphysical thought, Heidegger subjects scholastic philosophy, even Aquinas’ Thought, to this “deconstruction”. However, as is the case of the “scholastics” that Heidegger got to know, Thomas Aquinas’ thought is much more complex than he could ever imagine. Nevertheless, historiography proved that thomistic reflection was wrong for over four centuries under its subsequent interpretations started by Tomas Caetano in the XV and XVI centuries and fully determined by Francisco Suarez in the XVI and XVII centuries. Taking the historiographic issue into account, this research sets to critically study the need for the “destruktion” of the scholastics known by Heidegger.