Abstract

BENITO JUNIOR, Eugênio. Ethics, chaos and happiness. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2012, vol.35, n.54, pp. 39-54. ISSN 0101-3106.

As a primordial deity in Greek mythology, Chaos sets in as a character in Western culture. From his infinite ability to create endless emptiness, some of his descendants are coming from his daughter, the darkest Night, such as Revenge, Sarcasm and Death. To balance the chaotic environment, Eros jumps to the Gaia-stage and his struggle against Chaos helped to create the concept of rationality. Gradually, in an eternal cycle, the reason seems to go back to chaos and to rebirth, as shown by many crises of rational thought since Aristotelian Greece to contemporary times in which Quantum Physics shows the Universe as a combination of several Natures that coexist in a state overlap. Amid this chaotic frenzy of life and death in what place can happiness be found?

Keywords : Chaos; Ethics; Technology; Happiness.

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