Le probabilisme comme stratégie de compréhension interculturelle dans le Pérou colonial

Droit et Cultures

关键词: 17th century;    Colonial Morality;    Peru;    Probabilism;    Society of Jesus;    Transgression;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this article is to determine the role of probabilism in the construction of the moral order in Peru.  Toward that end, we offer the following theses:  (1) in Peru, Jesuit probabilism was the most efficient strategy for bringing about a “negotiated morality” between the universalist claims of European culture and the particularisms of local lifeways; (2) in the course of that effort, a moral system was constituted allowing for intercultural understanding by transferring moral judgments from the domain of theory (causal and nomological explication) to that of opinion (explication of reasons and circumstances) – that is, for lack of certainty, decisions were necessarily based on opinions of probability; (3) the attempt to arrive at an understanding between Hispanic and Andean categories in effect created a new culture that characterizes life in Peru, where – interestingly – hierarchical authority blends with bureaucratic laxity, rebellion with servitude, exclusion with attachment to order, the most unimaginable chaos with obstruction to all change that would allow for the foundation of a homogeneous modernity.  Our argument will be limited to the philosophical aspect of the debate over probabilism in Peru, as a position that stimulated the reflections of the Peruvian elite.

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