O Percurso Historiográfico-Linguístico das Paixões

• Autor(a) principal: GOMES, Janice Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2836
• topic: Linguística; Semiótica; Historiografia-Linguística; Paixões; Linguistics; Semiotics; Linguistic-Historiography; Passions; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This dissertation aims at tracing the linguistic-historiographical route of the passions. The starting point for doing this research was the book Semiotics of Passions, written by Algirdas Julien Greimas. During his studies of semiotics, Greimas realized that the verbal and non-verbal texts presented information that could represent the feelings as content. When dedicating himself to the Semiotics of action, from the studies of Vladimir Propp, took up a subject that had long been discussed in philosophy that was the influence of the passions in the way the individual thought and acted. As a result, it was considered to make this work a review of the route of the Semiotics os passions, also from Greimas view, mediated by Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce s thought, the precursors of the semiological and semiotic studies, respectively. The philosophers selected to the analysis of the route of the passions were, in Classical Antiquity, the third century b. C., Plato and Aristotle, who argued that man acted motivated by their passions. Such passions were always taken as an ill or a disease. Due such thought, the Greeks believed that only the non-intellectualized men possessed passions, intellectualized men were not affected by this ill, because they acted with rationality, therfore, classifying the passions as the pathos. Plato started a more general study on this subject, Aristotle, however, was the one who is dedicated to make them more specific, mainly, in the Rhetoric of Passions. In the course from Classical Antiquity to Christianity, in the fourth century, Aurelius Augustine, influenced by Christian thought, presented the passions from the perspective or under the conflict between soul and body. According to Augustine, the soul overlapped the body, i.e., it is stronger, so it carries man to sin. Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages, the thirteenth century, dedicated to work the existence, essence and passion. Classified them as irascible and concupiscibles, influenced by the philosophers of Classical Antiquity. Finally, in the modern age, the seventeenth century, René Descartes believed that the passions materialized themselves in a relation between the physiological system and the soul, all sorts of thought belonged to the soul. To study the passions, under the principles of semiotic theory, Greimas, besides having researched the passions, according to the philosophers thought, has adapted some features of the Semiotics of action, as the four modalities, that in the study of passions became modalities veridictórias (of veracity), and, to these, it was also included the study of immanence and manifestation, thus the principle of Semiotics of Passions is that the passions exist according to the wanting and the being.