On the Perspective of Perplexity Wonder and Philosophy

Abstract

In this article, I analyze Carlos Pereda’s proposal of making a “habit of wonder” achieved taking a “perspective of perplexity”, notwithstanding common attempts to eliminate this perspective through a “bad normalization” of philosophical problems. In several works, Pereda proposes a virtuous reason that is permeable to different kinds of goods, norms and perspectives, and is able to move between them and to interrupt itself in wonder and perplexity. In a second part, I show certain parallels with the notion of a “personal” and “emphatic” reason that the late Schelling develops in his “positive philosophy”. Finally, I pose three questions regarding this proposed notion of reason as decision, action and habit.