A liberdade de imaginar

Franklin Leopoldo e Silva

doi:10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i6p240-253

The freedom to imagine

Authors

Franklin Leopoldo e Silva Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-1184.v0i6p240-253

Keywords:

Perception, experience, denial, conscience.

Abstract

The text investigates the relations between imagination and freedom by comparing the main features of the Cartesian, Romantic and Sartrean conceptions of the connection between conscience and imagination. It tries to show that the exercise of the imagination has always been linked, before Sartre, to the positive nature of reality and knowledge, either restrictively, as in Descartes, or by means of the amplification of possibilities, as in Romanticism.