
EnglishThis paper arque that "the Enlightenment" could not be able to eliminate prejudices, as intended, given that they attacked the phenomenon where it was not. The hindrance of access to the truth was only a side-effect of prejudice and not its central element. Regardless of whether ir it possible to absolutely eliminate prejudices, their strategy adopted by the philosophers was doomed to failure. To support this hypothesis, we will study the aspects of such a conception, in order to find out the relationship of the prejudices with reality. Finally, it will be shown that the character of this relationship is accidental and the prejudice cannot be abolished by any argument about the trith of things. This article doesn´t address the question, whether is it possible to eliminate prejudices, but focuses only on the mistake of the modern author´s method. portuguesNeste artigo e defendido que ‘os iluministas’ nao poderiam ser capazes de eliminar os preconceitos, como pretendiam, haja vista que atacavam o fenomeno do preconceito onde ele nao estava, sendo o entrave no acesso a verdade apenas um efeito colateral do preconceito e nao seu elemento central. Independente da possibilidade ou nao de se eliminar os preconceitos, a estrategia adotada pelos filosofos desse periodo estava condenada ao fracasso. Para sustentar esta hipotese, primeiro sera extraida uma nocao geral do preconceito a partir de autores do periodo do iluminismo. Em seguida serao estudados seus aspectos a fim de compreender a relacao dos preconceitos com a realidade. Por fim se demonstra que o carater dessa relacao e acidental, nao podendo o preconceito ser abolido por uma argumentacao acerca da verdade das coisas.Este artigo nao discute se e possivel eliminar os preconceitos, apontando apenas o erro do metodo dos autores modernos.
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