O estoicismo como modo de vida na atualidade: desinstitucionalizar para universalizar

Abstract

Religion and science represent in the history of human thought and practicestwo poles of knowledge marked by numbers and great conflicts in each ofthe poles and between them. These conflicts have left their mark and deline-ated the direction of humanity over the centuries. In addition to these twoplaces of knowledge, philosophy, in its role as a questioner, has occupiedand   occupies  an   extremely  important   position   in  order  to  avoid  or  try  toavoid radicalism on both sides. This text briefly criticizes the role played byreligion   and   science   as   institutions   supposedly   holding   their   respectiveknowledge, pointing out the theoretical and practical failures and contradic-tions of both. I take as a starting point the Christian philosopher Plantinga,in his reflection on fine tuning, making a brief return to the stoic philosop-her and emperor Marco Aurélio, through the French thinker Michelet, ha-ving as a background the theme of the process of universalization and deins-titutionalization of knowledge, proposing stoicism as a way of life for today.