Heresies or the enlightened heterodoxy

Abstract

Heresies emerge from the desire to know more and ensure those who profess them the comfort of feeling closer to the truth. It is this tropism of approaching the splendour of truth that, through its own movement, generates withdrawal, separation and conflict. In the passionate struggle for the conquest of more and better knowledge, heresy starts competing with all those who believe they are already in possession of the truth or, at least, much closer to it. It is thus that, in the heretic experience, the dialectic love-hate, a field where intolerance flourishes, shows itself in such a compulsive and frequent way. Though heresies have imposed themselves historically as manifestations of infidelity towards a religious orthodoxy in construction or already established, there is a heretic functionality, in the human condition, inherent to the conjugation of desire with power and knowledge.