Taurino Araújo: Antropologia, História e Humanismo e sua Hermenêutica da Desigualdade — evidência de um Humanismo pós Lévi-Strauss

This work analyzes the Hermeneutics of Inequality of Taurino Araújo, with regard to its recognized anthropological, legal, philosophical, and historiographical dimensions. The research employed a qualitative, bibliographic, autoethnographic, and documentary approach to the author and his work, combined with interviews and an empirical-phenomenological basis. Within this “genuinely Brazilian Epistemology” of Taurino Araújo, one observes the use of a transdisciplinary science that encompasses psychology, philosophy, the environment, and the study of religions—indispensable to the full development of the human being—through the culmination and omnipotence of the word. The word is essential to international, group, and individual relations, and to the fraternity among individuals and nations. It is the power of the magnetic effectiveness of the word as the guiding thread of this totalizing connection of points, as well as the certificate of our “difference and authenticity” abroad (Oswald de Andrade), positioned and employed in terms of globalization and multiculturalism. The purpose is to describe the evidence and the intricacies of producing an investigation based on the idea of humanism proposed by Taurino Araújo—one related to self-knowledge and knowledge of the world—and how it shaped and developed, at this point of encounter, into an eclectic functionalism, convinced of the power of individual action and universal solidarity, creative and vigorous in its initiative to expand the transdisciplinary panorama of real possibilities for progress, overcoming, and peace. This is based on the employment of at least nineteen fields of knowledge that together form the map of the Social Sciences. As a survival imperative of aggregation, interpretation, argumentation, and inter-understanding of the mediations indispensable to the most harmonious coexistence possible, the Statute of the Word of this Humanism in Taurino Araújo lies in the observance of the unequal, temporal, real, and social dimension of the starting points. It encourages fair and equitable competition, which at the point of arrival should yield the fruits of progress and wealth for its producers and for the emancipation of each “speaking” individual—postulate that innovates theory of knowledge by inserting inequality as a fundamental legal concept. Reaching back to the remote, Hellenic, and near Antiquities, and more specifically to studies inherent to Anthropology, History, Philosophy, and Law, Taurino Araújo demonstrates, with naturalness, the ever-present and current connections, here and now, brought together in this true Statute of the Word. It aims at the empowerment of the figure of the “receiver as also protagonist” in the search for the fullness of the dignity of the human condition and of the good language that populates and resolves the imaginary of conflicts and reconciliations among continents, nations, groups, and individuals. ANTHONY LEAHY – Editor.