Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política
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description: A revista Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política, cujo número inaugural foi lançado em 1999, tem, ao longo de mais de duas décadas, ininterruptamente e periodicamente publicado artigos dedicados à área de Filosofia. Os Cadernos visam suprir em alguma medida a demanda por textos especializados e que atendam o estado atual da questão para o campo ao qual se destina, fornecendo bibliografia a um público interessado no caráter multifacetado da reflexão sobre a ética e a política. No quadriênio 2021-2024 da Qualis Capes, a revista foi classifica no estrato A2 na área de Filosofia. As questões relativas ao direito, à história, à religião e às artes não raro são por elas incorporadas, convertendo a um só tempo em sua matéria de investigação e seu cenário de intervenção. É esse caráter abrangente da ética e da filosofia política que lhes concede a virtude da vivacidade. Os Cadernos sempre procuraram corresponder e promover essa virtude, veiculando sobretudo a produção teórica discente, sem distinguir correntes ideológicas, linhas filosóficas ou áreas de saber incluídas nas mais diversas manifestações de reflexão. Aqui se encontrarão artigos, ensaios, resumos de teses e dissertações, resenhas, traduções de trechos de obras e de pequenas obras. Todos os trabalhos, de recepção dos artigos, envio para pareceristas, revisão, editoração e publicação são realizados pela equipe editorial, que se reúne regularmente e toma suas decisões editoriais de modo autônomo. A revista é editada em meio eletrônico, pelo sistema OJS, o que resulta em um ganho substancial de qualidade, pois facilita o acesso e a difusão dos textos. Somando-se a isso, contamos com um vasto corpo de pareceristas especializados nos temas, correntes filosóficas e autores enfocados pelos artigos, o que torna mais democrática a escolha dos textos destinados à publicação. Além disso, os Cadernos utilizam o sistema de avaliação na modalidade double-blind review, nos quais todos os manuscritos enviados passam por ao menos…
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
language: en
publication name: Cadernos de Ética e Filosofia Política
issn: 1517-0128
items: O Tema da felicidade em Jean Jacques Rousseau
items: O espírito alienado de si: o homem social
items: Deicídio e reação: Rousseau contra os materialistas do seu tempo
items: Kant e a política como realização do direito
items: Hobbes e o círculo do poder
items: O preço das coisas e a estima das pessoas em Pufendorf
items: Uma querela filosófica na historiografia rousseauísta
items: A noção de negatividade política no pensamento de Maquiavel
items: Propostas epistêmicas sobre o cânone filosófico: uma apresentação política
items: O fio democrático. Resenha do livro Ensaios sobre democracia: descrições de um corpo despedaçado, de Silvana de Souza Ramos
items: A carne do cervo do índio selvagem: A teoria da propriedade do Locke e o colonialismo inglês na América
items: Os usos da América em O Segundo Tratado sobre o Governo de Locke
items: The return of the repressed: crisis and renewal of the philosophical Canon in the USP experience
items: Black metamorphoses - fugitive experiments [2.0]
items: Feminisms and the rewriting of the canon: the opposition between history and nature “Woman”
items: The Limits of the Language of Human Rights in Revolutionary France - The Case of the Declarations Addressed to the National Assembly and the Pamphlets of Olympes de Gouges (1789-1791)
items: Slaves Without Masters and Masters Without Slaves, or Notes on the Jagunço System
items: Liberalism and colonialism in the work of John Locke
items: The racial contract: rereading modern theories through the lens of inverted epistemology
items: Two readings on colonialism as “agrarian pre-capitalism” in Locke’s theory of property
items: From the Tupinambá to the Wendat: An Indigenous Political Philosophy in Modernity
items: Resistance and Liberation: black women's political agency
items: For a Permanent Indigenization of Political Thought: Some Contemporary Variations of the “Counter-One”
items: Philosophical discourse and slavery in the 18th century: remarks on Condorcet and Cugoano
items: Apresentação à Carta ao marquês de Mirabeau
items: Francis Bacon
items: Carta ao marquês de Mirabeau
items: "Das sedições e perturbações" (1612)
items: Carta vai, carta vem: o romance epistolar em Montesquieu
items: Momento maquiaveliano e momento shakespeareano

O Tema da felicidade em Jean Jacques Rousseau
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description: O pensamento de Rousseau pode ser entendido como uma longa meditação sobre a felicidade. Embora seus dois Discursos tenham sido obras de tom pessimista, pois neles Rousseau descreve como os homens se corromperam e perderam sua independência, nada impediu que, em outros textos, ele analisasse como os homens poderiam ter conservado sua felicidade e liberdade, se assim o quisessem. Rousseau, na verdade, preocupou-se obsessivamente com a questão da felicidade humana e várias de suas obras dão-nos disso provas. Dentre as três formas de felicidade: a do homem natural, a do homem no estado civil e a do cosmopolita, Rousseau elegerá uma como ideal.
subject: Artigos
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subject: Rousseau - felicidade - sentimento de existência - patriotismo
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subject: Rosseau
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subject: felicidade
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subject: sentimento de existência
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subject: patriotismo
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creator: Thereza Assumpção Whitaker
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 115
ending page: 123
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p115-123

O espírito alienado de si: o homem social
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description: O despertar da faculdade de comparar e julgar se faz em Rousseau sob o signo da ambigüidade. Ao mesmo tempo em que introduz no caos de impressões predominante, num primeiro momento, uma ordem em virtude da qual os objetos e suas relações passam a ser percebidas, essa faculdade conduz à irrupção das preferências, à expansão dos desejos, à ânsia de se distinguir. O texto aqui apresentado procura apreender esse momento em que a sociabilidade irá se constituir por um processo de exteriorização em que o transporte para fora de si operado pela imaginação se traduz no ingresso na esfera da representação.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Rousseau
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subject: faculdade de comparar e julgar
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subject: amor próprio
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subject: imaginação
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creator: Jacira de Freitas Rosa
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 95
ending page: 113
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p95-113

Deicídio e reação: Rousseau contra os materialistas do seu tempo
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description: O artigo tem como objetivo principal traçar um panorama da discussão religiosa e metafísica na França do século XVIII enfatizando as objeções e as advertências de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, na "Profissão de fé do vigário saboiano", em relação às conseqüências do materialismo ateu na moral.
subject: Artigos
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subject: cristianismo
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subject: deísmo
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subject: ateísmo
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subject: materialismo
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subject: dualismo
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subject: imoralismo
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creator: Paulo Jonas de Lima Piva
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 79
ending page: 93
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p79-93

Kant e a política como realização do direito
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description: A problemática da aplicação dos princípios práticos percorre toda a doutrina do direito de Kant. É nossa intenção analisar, ainda que brevemente, como, para Kant, a política se põe como tarefa de realização do direito, ou melhor, dos princípios puros do direito, ou direito racional. Mas, uma vez que essa realização não se dá de modo imediato, é necessário justamente dar conta de seus princípios intermediários - sobretudo o princípio da representação, e a distinção entre modo de governar e forma de dominação -, assim como da questão da lei permissiva. Além disso, se procura estabelecer um fio vermelho ligando política e justiça social.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Kant
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subject: política
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subject: direito
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subject: justiça social
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creator: Daniel Tourinho Peres
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 Daniel Tourinho Peres https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 67
ending page: 78
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p67-78

Hobbes e o círculo do poder
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description: As imagens da revolução que encerram o Leviatã e o Behemoth indicam distintos momentos da filosofia política de Hobbes. O artigo procura comparar essas imagens, enfatizando como Hobbes em 1651 vê o fim do governo de Carlos I e O surgimento da República, para em 1668 assinalar o fracasso do governo de Cromwell e o conseqüente retorno da monarquia Stuart.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Carlos I
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subject: Cromwell
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subject: revolução
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subject: história
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subject: Fortuna
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creator: Eunice Ostrensky
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 55
ending page: 66
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p55-66

O preço das coisas e a estima das pessoas em Pufendorf
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description: Segundo Pufendorf, a linguagem, assim como todos os outros seres morais, é instituída pelo homem. O ato de nomear acrescenta às coisas algo que elas não possuem naturalmente. Não se alterou a essência das coisas, mas as relações entre as pessoas. A designação da propriedade é assim uma relação entre pessoas. O ato de instituir coisas morais é um movimento da vontade que cria um mundo totalmente artificial. O mesmo ocorre em relação às pessoas no processo de criação do seu grau de estima que constitui o mundo da opinião.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Pufendorf
  topic: keywords
subject: linguagem
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subject: propriedade
  topic: keywords
subject: ser moral
  topic: keywords
subject: opinião
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creator: Milton Meira do Nascimento
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 41
ending page: 54
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p41-54

Uma querela filosófica na historiografia rousseauísta
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description: O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a argüição do professor Luiz Roberto Salinas Fortes à dissertação do professor Milton Meira do Nascimento. Trata-se de duas concepções divergentes sobre o legislador em Rousseau, sobre a relação entre a história e o direito na obra de Rousseau. Para isso, é preciso verificar como a reprovação ao pacto dos ricos no Segundo Discurso reaparece na recusa da representação política no Contrato Social. Há uma diferença conceitual entre a soberania do povo e a legitimidade do Governo que causa muita disputa entre os comentadores.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Rosseau
  topic: keywords
subject: Iluminismo
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subject: filosofia do direito
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subject: filosofia política
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subject: filosofia brasileira
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creator: Ricardo Monteagudo
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 21
ending page: 39
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p21-39

A noção de negatividade política no pensamento de Maquiavel
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description: O conflito no interior da ordem política pode ser tomado como o princípio que compõe e articula o fortalecimento e a destruição do poder, segundo o pensamento maquiaveliano. Quando ele resulta da "potenza", é o elemento estruturante do debate sobre a liberdade. No entanto, podemos considerar a "negatividade" como a natureza do conflito que nega os princípios da liberdade, bem como os próprios princípios da política. Assim, embora ausente das obras maquiavelianas, o conceito de "negatividade" serve como chave para entendermos o enfraquecimento e a dissolução do poder nestas obras, principalmente nas Histórias Florentinas.
subject: Artigos
  topic: section
subject: Maquiavel
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subject: conflito
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subject: negatividade
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subject: realidade política
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creator: Douglas Ferreira Barros
rights: Copyright (c) 1999 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-04-14
publication date: 2026-04-14
starting page: 09
ending page: 19
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i1p09-19

Propostas epistêmicas sobre o cânone filosófico: uma apresentação política
type: item
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
creator: Virginia Helena Ferreira da Costa
creator: Mauro Dela Bandera
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Virginia Helena Ferreira da Costa, Mauro Dela Bandera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 8
ending page: 23
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p8-23

O fio democrático. Resenha do livro Ensaios sobre democracia: descrições de um corpo despedaçado, de Silvana de Souza Ramos
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subject: Resenhas
  topic: section
creator: Ricardo Polidoro Mendes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Ricardo Polidoro Mendes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 248
ending page: 254
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p248-254

A carne do cervo do índio selvagem: A teoria da propriedade do Locke e o colonialismo inglês na América
type: item
subject: Tradução
  topic: section
creator: Virginia H. Ferreira da Costa
creator: Barbara Arneil
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Virginia H. Ferreira da Costa; Barbara Arneil https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 213
ending page: 230
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p213-230

Os usos da América em O Segundo Tratado sobre o Governo de Locke
type: item
subject: Tradução
  topic: section
creator: Lucas M. Lessa
creator: Herman Lebovics
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lucas M. Lessa; Herman Lebovics https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 231
ending page: 246
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p231-246

The return of the repressed: crisis and renewal of the philosophical Canon in the USP experience
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description: This article investigates the history of philosophy as an institution, analyzing its mechanisms of exclusion and its potential for openness. It examines the French historiographical tradition, from Victor Cousin to Martial Gueroult, and its reception in Brazil, focusing on the experience of the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP). It argues that the history of philosophy, although often operating as a normative and exclusionary field, carries within itself the key to its own renewal. The article maintains that the supposed current crisis of the canon represents not a degeneration, but a “return of the repressed”: an opportunity to reaffirm a philosophical reflection on the history of philosophy itself.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: History of Philosophy
  topic: keywords
subject: Canon
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subject: Institutionalization
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subject: University of São Paulo
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creator: Lucas Vinicius Correa Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lucas Vinicius Correa Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 101
ending page: 116
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p101-116

Black metamorphoses - fugitive experiments [2.0]
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description: Research on the history of the representations of slavery have drawn attention to the ubiquity of metaphorical, “figurative slavery” in philosophical and political discourse through the European ages. This slavery, however, depended on the fantasy of the tyrant as a kind of slaver uninvolved with the effective transformation of people in property. What happens if we turn away from the pages of Western political philosophy and think about freedom with the archive of Black fugitivity?
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Slavery
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subject: Diaspora
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subject: Fugitivity
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subject: Metamorphosis
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subject: Mobility
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subject: Freedom
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creator: Victor Galdino
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Victor Galdino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 163
ending page: 172
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p163-172

Feminisms and the rewriting of the canon: the opposition between history and nature “Woman”
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description: Where are the female philosophers? Why have the names of female philosophers been erased from the History of Philosophy? Against the backdrop of contemporary debates about what it means to be a “woman” and the historical, social and political creation of the difference between men and women in Western Judeo-Christian civilization, we propose a reflection on the canon of seventeenth-century European philosophy and the absence of female philosophers, recognized in their time, in these canonical storylines of the history of philosophy.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: “Woman”
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subject: Beauvoir
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subject: Wittig
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subject: Oyěwùmí
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subject: Philosophical Canon
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creator: Tessa Moura Lacerda
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Tessa Moura Lacerda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 82
ending page: 89
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p82-89

The Limits of the Language of Human Rights in Revolutionary France - The Case of the Declarations Addressed to the National Assembly and the Pamphlets of Olympes de Gouges (1789-1791)
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description: The article investigates women's political participation through declarations, petitions, and motions addressed to the Constituent Assembly or directly to the people via pamphlets – particularly those of Olympe de Gouges. The central aim is to reveal the ambivalence of the language of rights and nature – central references of modern politics – in these documents produced between 1789 and 1791. A secondary objective is to outline the textual strategies women employed to assert the legitimacy of their political actions. This is significant because the Revolution necessitated the invention of a specific eloquence for the emerging public sphere. At first glance, the material analyzed might seem to reproduce the divide that political theory later reinforced between the private and public spheres, nature and politics, and the woman citizen detached from involuntary, survival-related familial ties. However, the argument put forth is that the complexity of these women's writing lies precisely in blurring these categories. The article concludes by demonstrating the relevance of a historical approach in political theory for a rigorous analysis of the core concepts underpinning contemporary political references.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: French Revolution
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subject: Rights
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subject: Olympe de Gouges
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subject: Pamphlets
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creator: Roberta Soromenho Nicolete
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Roberta Soromenho Nicolete https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 68
ending page: 81
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p68-81

Slaves Without Masters and Masters Without Slaves, or Notes on the Jagunço System
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description: Abstract: The article establishes a dialogue between the thought of Achille Mbembe and the notion of the “jagunço system” as an analytical tool to interpret new forms of domination and subjectivation in contemporary Brazil. It is argued that the rise of Bolsonarism has led to a shift in this system, by granting autonomy to the former enforcers of elite violence, who have now become protagonists of an identity-based politics marked by explicit violence and racism. This transformation signals the overcoming of the myth of racial democracy and the emergence of a new political rationality, whose contours can be understood considering Mbembe’s formulations on the “becoming-black of the world” and the production of “slaves without masters and masters without slaves” as expressions of the reconfiguration of capitalism and subjectivity in the 21st century.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Achille Mbembe
  topic: keywords
subject: Jagunço System
  topic: keywords
subject: Slavery
  topic: keywords
subject: Colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Capitalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Subjectivation
  topic: keywords
creator: Caio Paz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Caio Paz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 149
ending page: 162
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p149-162

Liberalism and colonialism in the work of John Locke
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description: One of the central elements of the emergence of modernity is related to the process of formation of modern nation-states and this process, with its political and social consequences, has been one of the central elements of theoretical reflection by the fundamental authors of modern political thought. However, the emergence and expansion of colonialism also had a fundamental importance in the development of modern theoretical ideas and concepts. As part of the reinterpretation of the canon of this thought, carried out by recent research, an important debate has emerged about the relationship between liberalism and colonialism. Liberalism has been associated with the language of natural rights and the limits of power. However, current research has problematized the link between liberalism and colonial expansion. Recent works have highlighted that some characteristics, such as abstract universalism or a vision about the foundation of property rights, would allow understanding their link with colonial or imperial domination. The present work seeks, from this perspective, to analyze and problematize John Locke's writings as a work in which the colonial experience had a fundamental influence on the elaboration of some of his main theoretical formulations.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Property
  topic: keywords
subject: Colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Locke
  topic: keywords
subject: England
  topic: keywords
creator: Javier Amadeo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Amadeo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 191
ending page: 211
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p191-211

The racial contract: rereading modern theories through the lens of inverted epistemology
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description: This text proposes to present a critical reading of modern and neo-contractualism from the perspective of the “racial contract” formulated by Charles Mills in his work of the same name, The Racial Contract. Using the concept of “inverted epistemology”, Mills argues that the social contract, far from being a universal pact among rational and free subjects, is historically structured as a strategic agreement that legitimizes “white supremacy” as an absolute political system. The analysis seeks to highlight how the exclusion of non-white subjects from the concept of humanity and from the social pact occurs through the construction and reproduction of an “epistemology of ignorance”, which is functional to the political project of white group domination. In this sense, Mills proposes a critical dialogue with the work A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, understanding it as an analysis that revitalizes the modern social contract – even though with radically different aspects – while maintaining the same exclusionary structure by disregarding the historical and material effects of structural racism. This, in some way, could still serve white supremacy, even though it claims to be equitable and impartial. In this way, the text will present some central questions that traverse this debate.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
creator: Jéssica Kellen Rodrigues
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Jéssica Kellen Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 132
ending page: 148
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p132-148

Two readings on colonialism as “agrarian pre-capitalism” in Locke’s theory of property
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description: This article examines John Locke's theory of property from two interconnected perspectives: (1) Barbara Arneil’s “contextual reading,” which relates Locke to 17th-century English colonial debates; and (2) the “structural analysis” of the chapter on “Property” in the Second Treatise, highlighting how his notion of “improved labor” underpinned the expropriation of Indigenous lands by English colonizers in America. On the one hand, Arneil demonstrates that Locke not only internalized pro-colonization arguments circulating in his time, but also grounded them philosophically in natural law. On the other hand, a close and direct reading of Locke demonstrates a complexification of the theory of natural equality, since the natural right to property, based on human essence, is differentiated according to phases of the state of nature, with more justified rights of appropriation related to a “more advanced” stage of human natural “evolutionism,” when the pre-capitalist agrarian economy developed. It is concluded that Lockean theory, by hierarchizing forms of work and cultivation, reinforced an assimilationist logic – perennial in contemporary practices – that subordinates other peoples to “higher” thoughts and practices.
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Property
  topic: keywords
subject: Colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Agrarian Pre-Capitalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Indigenous America
  topic: keywords
subject: Natural Law
  topic: keywords
creator: Virgínia H. Ferreira da Costa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Virgínia H. Ferreira da Costa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 173
ending page: 190
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p173-190

From the Tupinambá to the Wendat: An Indigenous Political Philosophy in Modernity
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description: The text argues for the relevance of Amerindian thought in shaping modern ideals of freedom and equality, highlighting the role of the Tupinambá and the Wendat chief Kondiaronk in the philosophical debates of the period. Since the time of Montaigne, the Tupinambá were already denouncing to Europeans the social inequality and political servitude experienced in the Old World. These dialogues were later taken up by Lahontan, who recorded conversations with Kondiaronk, revealing a sophisticated Indigenous critique of the European way of life. More than mere mouthpieces for European philosophers, the Amerindians are presented as political and intellectual agents, whose observations directly influenced Enlightenment thought. The text thus proposes a reversal of perspective: less a narrative of French lineage, and more a debate of Amerindian filiation, ranging from the Tupinambá of Brazil to the Wendat chief in Canada. Although one cannot speak of a homogeneous Indigenous political philosophy, there is a critical continuity between the discourses of the Tupinambá and Kondiaronk: the former exposed Europe’s social and political inequalities, while the latter – before Rousseau – showed how social inequality transformed into political inequality.
subject: Dossiê
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subject: Indigenous political philosophy
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subject: Modern philosophy
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subject: Tupinambá
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subject: Montaigne
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subject: Kondiaronk
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subject: Wendat
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creator: Mauro Dela Bandera
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mauro Dela Bandera https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 49
ending page: 67
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p49-67

Resistance and Liberation: black women's political agency
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description: This article examines the concept of freedom developed by Angela Davis grounded in the historical experience of Black women in the struggle against multiple forms of oppression. In contrast to the Western philosophical tradition, which defines freedom as a universal and abstract attribute, Davis proposes understanding it as a historical and collective process of liberation, forged in everyday practices of resistance. The Black woman, through organizing networks of care, solidarity, and insubordination, emerges as a foundational subject of this new formulation of freedom. The analysis focuses on Davis’s works from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, highlighting how her philosophy articulates theory, political practice, and militancy, while offering a radical critique of the criminalization of resistance and the social order that sustains exclusion. By shifting the concept of freedom from abstraction to the lived experiences of those historically denied it, Davis proposes a liberation philosophy rooted in Black women's insurgent praxis.
subject: Dossiê
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subject: Angela Davis
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subject: Liberation
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subject: Freedom
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subject: Resistance
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subject: Black woman
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creator: Laíssa Ferreira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Laíssa Ferreira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 117
ending page: 131
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p117-131

For a Permanent Indigenization of Political Thought: Some Contemporary Variations of the “Counter-One”
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description: This article proposes a dialogue between Clastres’ idea of “society against the state” (inspired by E. La Boétie's “Contre-Un”) and the political thought of contemporary indigenous intellectuals and leaders. It analyses contemporary drifts of this idea of “counter-state” by examining two problems that intersect: the problem of cosmopolitics (that is, the inadequacy of the figure of the polis to conceive of extra-human agencies and the plurality of worlds) and the problem of autonomy (that is, the creation of autonomous territories within states, which results in an interesting paradox).
subject: Dossiê
  topic: section
subject: Political thought
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subject: Counter-State
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subject: Cosmopolitics
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subject: Autonomy
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creator: Renato Sztutman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Renato Sztutman https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 24
ending page: 48
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p24-48

Philosophical discourse and slavery in the 18th century: remarks on Condorcet and Cugoano
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description: This article addresses some aspects of two important anti-slavery works published in the last decades of the 18th century: Condorcet's Reflexions sur l’esclavage des nègres, published in 1781, and Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, published in 1787. Although they share many aspects and partially involve a similar vocabulary of natural rights and freedom, this is an initial study intended to map some fundamental aspects that distinguish the two texts, beyond Condorcet's well-known gradualism and Cugoano's radicalism. Starting from the consideration of an example of philosophical discourse that sought to justify slavery, exemplified here by a passage from a famous work by Voltaire, the article analyzes aspects of the philosophical discourses of Condorcet and Cugoano to glimpse how they react to this mobilization of modern philosophical vocabulary and how their texts articulate more fundamental differences in the way of conceiving rights, freedom and the consequent need to abolish slavery.
subject: Dossiê
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subject: Slavery
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subject: Enlightenment
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subject: Philosophical discourse
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subject: Rights
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subject: Freedom
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subject: Abolition
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creator: Rodrigo Brandão
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Rodrigo Brandão https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-12-05
publication date: 2025-12-05
starting page: 90
ending page: 100
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v44i2p90-100

Apresentação à Carta ao marquês de Mirabeau
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subject: Tradução
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creator: Ricardo Monteagudo
rights: Copyright (c) 2000 Ricardo Monteagudo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2000-04-25
publication date: 2000-04-25
starting page: 115
ending page: 116
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i2p115-116

Francis Bacon
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subject: Tradução
  topic: section
creator: John Aubrey
creator: Eunice Ostrensky
rights: Copyright (c) 2000 John Aubrey; Eunice Ostrensky https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2000-04-25
publication date: 2000-04-25
starting page: 105
ending page: 106
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i2p105-106

Carta ao marquês de Mirabeau
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subject: Tradução
  topic: section
creator: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
creator: Ricardo Monteagudo
creator: Maria Magdalena Matte Hiriart
rights: Copyright (c) 2000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Ricardo Monteagudo, Maria Magdalena Matte Hiriart https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2000-04-25
publication date: 2000-04-25
starting page: 117
ending page: 122
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i2p117-122

"Das sedições e perturbações" (1612)
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subject: Tradução
  topic: section
creator: Francis Bacon
creator: Eunice Ostrensky
rights: Copyright (c) 2000 Francis Bacon; Eunice Ostrensky https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2000-04-25
publication date: 2000-04-25
starting page: 106
ending page: 114
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i02p106-114

Carta vai, carta vem: o romance epistolar em Montesquieu
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description: This paper aims at examining the role of the epistolary style in the Lettres Persenes, the only work in which Montesquieu employed that literary genre.
subject: Artigos
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subject: Montesquieu
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subject: epistle
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subject: customs
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subject: political virtue
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creator: Antônio Carlos dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2000 Antônio Carlos dos Santos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2000-04-25
publication date: 2000-04-25
starting page: 89
ending page: 102
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i2p89-102

Momento maquiaveliano e momento shakespeareano
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description: Hobbes' work inaugurates the central lines of modern political thought by thinking against (and here lie its tension and its tragedy) its most important and also its most disturbing discovery: the idea that the conflict is the irreductible nucleous of social and political relationships. Here is suggested that this idea of conflict as a key to understand political processes may be reinstalled by looking, beyond Hobbes, both at Maquiavelli's and at Shakespeare's worlds.
subject: Artigos
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subject: Conflict
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subject: tragedy
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subject: politics
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subject: Machiavelli
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subject: Shakespeare
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creator: Eduardo Rinesi
rights: Copyright (c) 2000 Eduardo Rinesi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2000-04-25
publication date: 2000-04-25
starting page: 73
ending page: 88
doi: 10.11606/issn.1517-0128.v1i2p73-88