A modernidade diante do problema do conhecimento

The text is divided into two parts, the first one opens the discussion of truth with theTheory of Scientific Knowledge, identifying internal limits to the modern pretension. The knowledgeconstruction perspective through modernity brought tremendous benefits to the mankind. On theother side, it brought the growing omnipotent pretension of the human reason, that seeks in sciencethe answers to all the questions of the human being. It is a model of knowledge construction that isclaiming the status of a model par excellence in knowledge construction, taken as a result of anobjectifying act of thinking. The second part discusses that criticism has grown contemporaneously insuch a way to relate itself to knowledge, that seeks in the post-cartesian notion of knowledge theomnipotent rational subject, who wants to have the primacy of thought, as exclusive, in theproduction of knowledge. The criticism that arises is precisely in this contradiction, in realizing thatsuch a model cannot respond for its assumptions, this is, the realm of reason on the totality ofknowledge. Thus, conditions arise to reflect on a new knowledge, based on the question of thetradition appropriation that in an educational context refers to the expectation of overcoming suchlimits.