ABOUT KILLING AND DYING: REFLECTION ON THE LAW FROM CLARICE LISPECTOR AND PAUL BEAUCHAMP

Abstract

This article, inserted into the context of Brazilian research in theopoetics, aims to reflect about how human beings relate to the law as a gift from God and about love as an anthropological element that furthers the respect for law and the realization of justice. Such reflection will be founded on the literary work of Clarice Lispector and the biblical-theological reflection of Paul Beauchamp. The primary object of the law, according to Lispector, is the destructive, human impulse that leads us to the possibility of killing. The interdiction against murder, therefore, will be the guiding thread of the reflection in which the writer’s ideas will be placed in dialogue with the analysis of the theologian exegete, in order to clarify the theological relevance of Lispector’s work, as well as the relevance of the topic of violence in the present.

KEY-WORDS: Law. Love. Killing. Dying. Justice.