“On the contradiction” by Cirne-Lima

Abstract

This is a review of the book “Sobre a Contradição”, released in 1993 by PUC-RS's publishing house. It was written by Carlos Roberto Velho Cirne Lima, a Brazilian intellectual who recently died, in 2020. So this review is also a homage. Published in the 2000s, this book shows its author as a dia lectical philosopher who proposes an original and polemic philosophical system. Today, as throughout his life, in times of revisions and corrections of the Aristotelian Classical Logic and of views on subjectivity in the face of the necessitarianism in Philosophy, Cirne-Lima is still important. This is because it dialogues with different streams of Dialectics (Plato and Hegel) and of Analytics (Aristoteles) and reconciles them in the current spirit of non-classical logics. It does so at a Neoplatonic-Neo-Hegelian pace. In this sense, we sought to present the philosopher and his philosophy and answer, among other things: what is the central idea of the book? How does the author develop his proposal? What are some specific points that the philosopher revises and corrects from Hegel? Why is the book important nowadays? Why is the author controversial and original?