Da conservação do próprio corpo à manutenção do corpo político: um itinerário rousseauniano / From the conservation of the own body to the maintenance of the body politic: a rousseaunian itinerary

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

27/06/2012

RESUMO

This work intends to demonstrate how Rousseau conceives the passage from the natural state to the civil situation, taking the human body as a privileged perspective to the description of such process. In this direction, the consequences of this change to man will be assigned, showing in which way he is originally conceived in order to point out how his body, his health and his strength are affected. By this characterization of the man in the state of nature, it will become possible to find the force or the weakness of the man in the civilized state and, besides, what was added to his original constitution or subtracted from it. Once abandoned this initial situation, it will be pointed out the importance of the development of new faculties in man, which will allow him to build tools and will much ease his subsistence, but will cause deep consequences to his body and will influence decisively in the arising of new ideas. New feelings will also arise and, with this, the body will be faced in a different way compared to his equal from that natural state and this situation will lead to the arising of the civil state. Finally inserted in this state, it is also important to expose how the genevian thinker will understand what a body politic is and the relationship between men and this bigger body where they are. Then, it will be studied in which way the behavior of individuals will directly reflect in the maintenance of the civil state itself: the activities proposed by Rousseau will be analyzed which, by the time they provide health and strength to the citizen\ s bodies, will also contribute in a decisive way to the conservation (or health) of the body politic itself.

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body estado de natureza rousseau rousseau state of nature corpo body politic cidadão citizen corpo político

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