Filosofía y literatura: A modo de presentación

Abstract

The goal of this presentation is to emphasize, on one hand, that there are interesting and important realations between philosophy and literature and, on the other hand, that the cutting or taxidermic division between them is an untenable task. Wisdom must be understood as an attitude or as taking a stand and not a a science, and it is from this perspective that it makes sense that the founding fathers of philosophy –the presocratic– wrote poems or the fact that Thomas Aquinas included the Poetic in the Organon as a special mode of arguing. Here are offered three answers to the objections in favor of the separation between literature and philosophy in order to point out that the systematic character, the argumentative style and the subordination to truth are not clear criteria to unlink philosophy and literature.