THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CIVIC REPUBLICANISM IN ROUSSEAUNIAN CONSTITUTIONALIST THOUGHT

• Autor(a) principal: Leite, Leonardo Delatorre
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Menezes, Daniel Francisco Nagao, Moraes, Gerson Leite de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Opinião Jurídica (Fortaleza)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unichristus.edu.br/opiniaojuridica/article/view/4416
• topic: Rousseau; republicanism; civic virtues; constitucionalism; Rousseau; republicanismo; virtudes cívicas; constitucionalismo; Rousseau; republicanismo; virtudes cívicas; constitucionalismo

Context: The philosophy of the Geneva thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was of fundamental importance for the development of the constitutionalist mentality and, mainly, the principles of republicanism, as an axiological-normative orientation in favor of the so-called "common good", understood as the set of goods and values essential for the development of the community. Moreover, republican theses see freedom not only as a right, but above all as a duty. In this sense, republicanism presents, at its core, a new understanding of freedom, facing it from the role of the individual in the organization of political power.Objective and Methodology: In this way, Rousseau's discussions about the so-called "general will", civic virtues, freedom as self-regulation and the sovereignty of the collective body establish a central dialogue with the neuralgic elements of the republican cosmovision, whose reflections are of great value for a better understanding of contemporary democratic weaknesses and the crisis of liberal democracy. Based on the deductive approach methodology, the present work was built with the use of bibliographic sources.Conclusion: It is observed the imprescindibility of the structuring of democratic constitutionalism based on mechanisms that favor a deontological understanding of civil liberty, above all, for a better realization of the principle of the dignity of the human person.