A “CAPITALIZAÇÃO” DOS SETE PECADOS

Abstract

In this present article, the sin was brought into perspective. For this purpose, our attention is focused on Santa Cruz neighborhood, located in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro city, which receives insufficient investments from the Government, scores a low Social Progress Index, suffers from the exponential growth of the urban violence, also is a victim of voracity and irresponsibility by the large companies placed on the local area, besides has its population target by stigma and prejudice. At this first and brief moment, the Aristotelian Philosophy and Christ ethics will be appealed – where the sin shows up itself as a fundamental category – and Literature (throug the work of Dante Alighieri) – we demonstrate throughout this article, wich phenomenon/ relations that mark the contemporary show themselves as a new guise of the classic capital sins. As mentioned, referring to Santa Cruz, each of them, supposed social dimension of sins is made explicit. Superb, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony and sloth are all thematized here, leading us to conclude that these exposed sins are far away to leading their sinners to “hell”. In certain way, from its towers, bubbles or castles, they keep looking skewed or at some distance to the Santa Cruz neighborhood, contributing to maintain it invisible in the city context.