Do jardim mágico ao mundo laico: racionalização da religião e do direito em Max Weber

Abstract

It is intended, by means of three essays, to analyze the rationalization of the religion and of the law in Max Weber. It will accentuate how the German thinker understood the "disenchantment" of the world as dismagification of the ways of salvation and as scientific transformation of the world in a "causal mechanism". Nevertheless, the two senses are not simultaneous, there is a unique historical turning to western modernity: the own religious ethos, especially by his Calvinist streak, at the enthroning the impersonality of the social relations and to promote the rationalization of the different spheres of action, stripped the world of his sacral mantle and profane it. On the other hand, will highlight the rise, thanks to the "disenchantment" of the world, the modern legal formalism in which the laws lose their magical aura. The laws are to be reviewable, although the technical-abstract content to become unknown to the layman. Finally, the weberian concepts will be read in light of recent interpretations about the religious, moral and legal modernity of Brazil. Between the lines, will appear the weberian "ethics", secular and self-assured.