Griot : Revista de Filosofia

26-37

Authors: Antonio Glauton Varela Rocha

Emmanuel Mounier looks forward a possible dialogue between personalism and Marxism. This dialogue is aware of the contact and removal points between the two theories. Mounier does not accept what he calls of materialistic reduction of personal being and insists in the consideration of the spirit as constituent of the person as the matter. A reform of society must look even to the material, spiritual and moral of the person and the society where it is situated. In the process of personalist and communitarian revolution, Mounier states that it is fundamental that the question of singular man may never be considered deferrable, but as a simultaneous concern for the political and economic ones.

55-67

Authors: José Reinaldo Felipe Martins Filho

The purpose of this study is to discuss one of the most imminent problems concerned to the democratic republics, namely: the tyranny of the majority over minorities. For this, we take as reference the analyzes developed by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, especially related to the omnipotence of the majority in American democracy. As one of the biggest dangers of democratic governments is always the possibility of introduction of despotism, not under the power of the empire of one, as in the example of the monarchy, but by the tyranny exercised by the majority. It is, therefore, to discuss the limits of popular power and the strength of the majority in democracy, against the risk of annihilation of individual liberty and minority groups who, under the aegis of social homogeneity, are relegated to the margins of social rights.

77-91

Authors: Harley Juliano Mantovani

We go of orthodox lecture of Merleau-Ponty’s work. In this way we believe to be plus sincere and trustworthy to him. In this direction, we present the consequences for the philosophy which, of heroic and dramatic manner, recover the tragic nature of transcendental as revelation and engagement at eternal contingency. We show which the theme proper at this philosophy, yours truthful ground, is the absence of precise limits of phenomenology and the ontology. In this terms, we analyze of the manner which the phenomenology extend and fortify the ordinary frontiers of Logos, who never was human, but, since always a Nature which express the Being.

115-122

Authors: João Paulo Miranda

This study aims to address the ethical and cognitive pathway necessary to make effective the role of the philosopher presented in the Phaedo, one of the most famous dialogues of Plato, taking into account new concepts arising from an already known hermeneutic conflict due to the high literary quality of the aforementioned text. In this approach, the sensible does not occupy a derogatory position which means secondary and small, consisting of imperfect copies and source of mistakes, thereby it represents a relevant role of fundamental importance in the construction of Platonic philosophy and it is where the examination and dialectical exercise take place. The purpose of this study is to approach this concept, which adresses the sensible and the intelligible, making it necessary to refer to the incessant Socratic-Platonic dialectics search where the praxis and ethical behavior of the individual are essential factors in order to occur the epistemic leap towards a true and essential knowledge that will constitute the true character of wisdom lover.

132-143

Authors: Erick Araujo de Assumpção1

This paper aims to make a brief analysis of the social contract theories in Locke and Rousseau. Both authors share the concept of a deliberate agreement between humans whose wild condition finishes with this decision. Therefore, the State emerges to protect from a certain way of living: the wildness. In contrast, Pierre Clastres – French ethnologist – enlightens issues about primitive groups in current times and demonstrates that there is a permanent conjuration against the emergence of a political power beyond the control of the social group as a whole. Hence, these groups are societies against the State. Thus, we aim to make a collision between the ideas of Locke, Rousseau and Clastres as well as its current reverberations.