A virtude na democracia de Tocqueville

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Daniel de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/00130000082fp
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/4098
• topic: Virtude; Democracia; Tocqueville; Cidadania; Formação; Virtue; Democracy; Tocqueville; Citizenship; Formation; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

The last thirty years have witnessed a renewed interest in the civic -republican thought within Western political philosophy. The contributions of the Republican ideas are especially evoked in response to the debate between liberals and community that has been caught in recent decades. The notion of virtue reflects well the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville who, marked by a combination of republican, liberal and communitarian ideas, has been rediscovered and become a rich source of inspiration for scholars who care about the future of democracy. From his observations on the United States of the early 1830s America, Tocqueville elaborates his original vision of the conditions of possibility of a political community in which equality and freedom tend to convergence. The democratic state, according to the author, only exists through the effort of balance between these two principles in the experience of citizenship. Tocqueville proposes a new political science that aims to guide the leaders of society in the task of educating citizens able to fight trends that threaten the survival of democracy. In its strategy to restore democratic customs of men, Tocqueville begins by welcoming a moral doctrine that preserves the motivational seal in the interest of the individual while expanding your perspective and your goals. The process of citizenship formation de Tocqueville advances encouraging men to counter their individualistic tendencies through political participation and the formation of opposing habits, acquire the taste for freedom. For Tocqueville, the institutions in general, religion, and political engagement play the political role of forging citizens and engender healthy cultural policy. If the irresistible march of equality that characterizes the new era is natural, the hope of Tocqueville is the guarantee of freedom through political art