MAQUIAVEL: A concepção de violência política

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: SIMÃO DA SILVA, Samuel
• Orientador(a): OLIVEIRA, Maria Izabel Barboza de Morais
• Banca de defesa: OLIVEIRA, Maria Izabel Barboza de Morais , ZIERER, Adriana Maria de Souza , HAHN, Fábio André , VIEIRA, Martha Victor , COELHO, Victor Pinto
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Maranhão
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM HISTÓRIA/CCH
• Departamento: COORDENAÇÃO DO CURSO DE HISTÓRIA/CCH
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Maquiavel; Ideias Políticas; Contextualismo; Florença/Itália; Violência Política
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Machiavelli; Political Ideas; Contextualism; Florence/Italy; Political Violence
• Palavras-chave em Espanhol: Maquiavelo; Ideas políticas; Contextualismo; Florencia/Italia; Violencia política
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Ciência Política
• Link de acesso: https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/6408

The objective of this thesis is to understand the essence of Niccolò Machiavelli's work by analyzing the conception of political violence it presents. Thus, we consider that political action cannot be associated with the moral values usually shared by ordinary citizens, who do not bear the responsibility and weight of institutional political decisions. To achieve this, however, it is necessary to look at Machiavelli's Italy and perhaps at Europe itself during that period (15th and 16th centuries), relating his work to the context of his thought and speech. This study intends, in this sense, as a method of analysis, to follow the guidance of linguistic contextualism advocated by English historians Quentin Skinner and John Pocock. This mechanism, according to which, to understand the meaning of a form of political thought, it would be essential to contextualize the author within his time and society, seeking to grasp his intentions. This is what Pocock defines as a speech act. Thus, "evidently, studying political discourse implies studying historical facts, as part of this approach is to think of discourses as actions" (POCOCK, 2003, p. 9). In this way, both Skinner and Pocock seek to understand the meaning of a given author, observing the relationships that were established with him through the environments he frequented, the books he read, and how socio-historical events "acted upon him" (OLIVEIRA, 2009, p. 3). Thus, the meaning of Machiavellian work emerges, presenting itself through a conception of political violence that should not be understood outside its social reality. His speech act is also an intervention through a lucid understanding of its moment, even if it is not always correct. In any case, and for this very reason, violence in political affairs, as addressed in Machiavelli's work, should not be seen as an anachronistic element. She is not an intruder. Machiavelli, on the contrary, perceived violence as a key element of various political practices and a common denominator and watershed in various human societies. Thus, his work is understandably rooted in its time.