The impact of mentality and emotions in the creation of the magazine Claridade

da Luz, Hilarino

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da Luz, Hilarino

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This chapter addresses the mentality and the emotions of the various individuals who created the magazine Claridade (1936). It considers how the creative power of the magazine’s founders and contributors was based on these two elements (mentality and emotions) and their observations of the Cape Verdean reality. We will consider two types of emotions – positive and negative – as described by Caruso Samel and references to other authors who approach this topic from a spiritual point of view, mainly that of Christian Rationalism, a philosophy that incorporates scientific elements).We will also show how human beings can form their ideas by exerting their own free will and reach the areas where Total, Absolute, and Universal Intelligence are. This concept is the founding principle of the magazine and the basis of the viewpoints of authors such as Onésimo Silveira. In short, this study confirms that the creation of the magazine Claridade was based on the two aforementioned types of emotions and its authors’ penchant for observation. These facts, influenced by free will, made this group feel that it was imperative to divulge the nature of the Cape Verde archipelago and Cape Verdean literature.