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Hilton Japiassu
own evolutive feature, has turned to be profoundly intolerant to passions, emotions and
mysteries. Reason has turned into an instrumental rationality, revering the means to the
detriment of the ends. Hence the disenchantment with reason and the advent of
nihilism. The aim of this paper is to seek to understand this phenomenon that has been
named as crisis of the occidental reason.
key words: reason, scientific rationality, crisis of the occidental reason