Anatomía del placer lúdico en Santo Tomás de Aquino

Abstract

El artículo hace el análisis del vocabulario lúdico utilizado en los escritos de Tomás de Aquino, que permite descubrir una “hermenéutica del buen humor” que caracteriza su manera de pensar sobre el ser humano. El objetivo del estudio consiste en sondear la base filosófica tomista de lo lúdico, destacando su contexto antropológico (el valor de la condelectatio), epistemológico y ético. En este marco, aparece en el pensamiento del Aquinate una “racionalidad lúdica”, que percibe lo lúdico como dirigibile, y que, además, a través del placer lúdico abre al otro hombre (reciprocidad y dimensión comunitaria) y a la verdad. El particular interés se pone en exponer como el ocio ayuda en el conocimiento racional.

On occasion of the centennial of Colombian writer Nicolás Gómez Dávila, this article analyzes a scholion that summarizes his attitude toward the reality in which man is immersed. It says, “Between man and nothingness comes the shadow of God.” On the one hand, this expresses the fear of the abyss of nothingness, which was felt in particular by the contemporary authors whose works were part of Gómez Dávila’s library. On the other, it tests his distance, as a pessimist, from the nihilist authors with whom he has been associated. Gómez Dávila affirmed this distance in faith in a variety of scholia, of which a sample is provided. All of this helps to explain his pessimistic anthropology, which is due more to the classical pessimism of Thucydides than to the contemporary pessimism of a philosopher such as Cioran.