Laboratório de Estudos Renascentistas

O LERen é um grupo de estudos da filosofia do Renascimento. Formado em 2010 por professores e alunos de História, Letras, Direito e Filosofia, tem por objeto de pesquisa a Renascença segundo um enfoque multidisciplinar: articular diferentes áreas do saber em torno da apreciação das diversas faces do fenômeno cultural renascentista, para daí considerar sua produção filosófica.

(…) And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study, virtue, and that part of philosophy will I apply, that treats of happiness by virtue specially to be achieved. Tell thy mind, for I have Pisa left, and I am to Padua come, as he that leaves a shallow plash, to plunge him in the deep, and with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.

    Tra.  Mi perdonate, gentle master mine, I am in all affected as yourself; glad that you thus continue your resolve, to suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, good master, while we do admire this virtue, and this moral discipline, let’s be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray; or so devoted to Aristotle’s checks, as Ovid be an outcast quite abjured: balk logic with acquaintance that you have, and practice rhetoric in your common talk: music and poesy use to quicken you; the mathematics, and the metaphysics, fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you: no profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en; – In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

(Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew, 1^o ato, 1^a  cena)

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