The man as reason and violence in the logic of philosophy by Eric Weil

Abstract

The scope of this article is to expose the Weil's thinking as regards to man as being at the same time liable of rationality and violence in accordance with the introduction of the fundamental work of Eric Weil, Logic Philosophy. Weil criticizes the concept of man preserved by tradition, scientific or philosophical, to rational being. Weil suggests a analysis of man in which appear features that break with this traditional meaning. The cited author uses the categories of reasonableness and violence to indicate different positions of a man, that, therefore, reveal the limit and the one-sidedness of the traditional concept. The Weil's man is, above all, openness to the possibility of reasonableness or violence. Guided by first, assumes the task of building his being by development of reason, which is initially in power. Oriented by second, moves away trom the reason and excludes of the task of negativity that leads to contentment