Diderot et Lessing participent au débat esthétique central du 18e siècle, celui de la notion d’illusion dans les arts visuels. Diderot voit le signe esthétique sous un aspect énergétique, alors que Lessing reste fidèle au modèle rhétorique. Par conséquent deux formes du théâtre des Lumières s’établissent, pour Diderot celui du tableau, pour Lessing celui de l’action. Sur cet arrière-plan, l‘étude offre une comparaison typologique des dramaturgies des deux auteurs.Les raisons expliquant les définitions bien différentes de l’image sur scène sont à rechercher dans les jugements d‘un monde devenu contingent. Diderot favorise un matérialisme scientifique, les anciennes valeurs éternelles sont soumises à un dynamisme de relativité. Lessing s’oriente vers une notion de vérité d’origine chrétienne. L’analyse comparatiste intègre non seulement ces images de l’ordre du monde, mais aussi des aspects d’une sémiotique du théâtre.L’étude établit avec une comparaison entre le Laokoon de Lessing et les Essais sur la peinture de Diderot une première terminologie d’analyse. Le choix des textes reflète ensuite le développement des deux auteurs par rapport à l’image sur scène. Sont examinés d’abord Le Fils naturel et Le Père de famille avec leurs textes annexes. Après nous présentons les idées de la Correspondance sur la tragédie que Lessing mène avec ses amis avant sa traduction des textes mentionnés de Diderot. Des analyses de la Dramaturgie de Hambourg et de Emilia Galotti font comprendre la position de Lessing face au théâtre de Diderot. Le dernier chapitre oppose en résumé Nathan der Weise comme utopie du théâtre à la vision du jeu sur scène décrite dans le Paradoxe sur le comédien. / Diderot and Lessing both participate in the central aesthetic debate of the 18th century: the concept of illusion in the visual arts. Diderot views the sign as an energetic entity, while Lessing favours the rhetoric model. This results in two forms of theatre of Enlightenment: Diderot’s form is that of the tableau, for Lessing the plot remains crucial. With this in mind Lessing’s and Diderot’s different approaches to drama are compared in a typological way.Reasons for the two orientations are anchored in different assessments of a world of contingence. Diderot presents a scientific materialism. The ancient eternal values are exposed to a dynamic of relativity. Lessing adopts a notion of truth based on Christian values. The analysis integrates not only these sights of world order but also reflections of theatrical semiotics. The dissertation begins with a comparison of Lessing’s Laokoon and Diderot’s Essais sur la peinture and highlights the different approaches towards the aesthetic debate. The choice of text then follows the development of both authors in relation to visuality. Thus Le Fils naturel and Le Père de famille with their annexes are analized. Next, Lessing’s ideas about theatre in the Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel, a correspondence with his friends before his translation of Diderot’s texts mentioned above, are outlined. How Lessing’s position differs from Diderot’s is further depicted through an analysis of the Hamburgische Dramturgie and Emilia Galotti. By way of resume the final chapter presents Nathan der Weise as a utopia of theatre in contrast to the paradox vision of stage illusion in the Paradoxe sur le comédien.

The work seeks to gain an understanding of the concept of spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. The objective will be met by means of Hegel's interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone and Diderot's Rameau's Nephew. In its most immediate form the spirit appears as an organically structured whole which Hegel identifies with the Greek ethical substance. Superficially this substance is conceived as a harmonious organism; in reality - as Antigone's and Creon's paradigmatic conflict shows - it is beset by inner conflicts. The once unitary and organically structured spirit decomposes into individual forms of consciousness during the Roman period and develops in further course into a subject freed from anything substantial. It is in this course of the spirit evolving into a subject that Hegel presents his interpretation of Rameau's Nephew. Rameau represents the self-negating and self-destructive spirit, who has completely identified with Antigone's and Creon's revolt and has lost the capability of accepting anything not issuing from his consciousness. The last part of the work presents the spirit as a movement seeking to encompass both of these extremes, i.e. the extreme of the substance devoid of subject as well as the extreme of subject negating the substance. In the context of the Phenomenology of...

Esta dissertação visa realizar uma revisão historiográfica da obra Considerações sobre a França (1797), de Joseph de Maistre, que representa um dos primeiros ensaios de interpretação histórica do fenômeno revolucionário em língua francesa e do ponto de vista da contra-revolução. Neste ínterim, pretendemos oferecer uma visão de conjunto do uso que a historiografia da Revolução Francesa fez das Considerações de Maistre. Simultaneamente, empreendemos uma síntese biográfica-intelectual do saboiano, com o objetivo de sublinhar a complexa natureza de sua reação à Revolução e ao Iluminismo reação esta caracterizada por uma excêntrica interação entre jesuitismo, iluminismo e filosofia das Luzes. Por fim, apresentamos ao público uma tradução dessa obra, ainda inédita em língua portuguesa. / The purpose of this study is to present a historical revision of Joseph de Maistres Considérations sur la France (1797), which represents a pioneering attempt of historical interpretation of the revolutionary phaenomenon in French language and from the point of view of the counter-revolution. In doing so, we intend to offer a panoramic view of the use made of Joseph de Maistres most famous pamphlet in the historiography of the French Revolution. It also provides a brief intellectual biography of the savoyard which tries to underline the complexity of the Maistrean reaction to the Enlightenment and the Revolution - marked by an eccentric interaction with certain currents of jesuitism, iluminism and the Enlightenment. Last but not least, we present a translation of the pamphlet, heretofore neglected in Portuguese.

Entre 1808 e 1814 o Império Hispânico esteve envolvido por uma grande crise, iniciada pelo sequestro do rei Fernando VII por Napoleão Bonaparte. Com a invasão francesa, uma parte do povo espanhol resistiu aos conquistadores, e entre eles havia um grupo de ilustrados que se reuniam normalmente em uma tertúlia. Sob o comando do poeta Manuel Quintana, este grupo decidiu escrever o Semanario Patriótico, um jornal pioneiro, que interpretava a crise militar como uma crise constitucional e tentava comandar uma revolução. Em meio às dificuldades peninsulares, a questão americana foi motivo de preocupação e esperança, e nesse ponto houve um dos maiores debates do período, que dizia respeito tanto à posição das antigas colônias na nova ordem quanto em como combater as crescentes insurgências. Diante dos problemas políticos e militares, o grupo fundador do Semanario Patriótico se separou, não apenas fisicamente, mas também politicamente, e fundou novos jornais. Enquanto a maior parte dos seus redatores integrou o grupo liberal durante as Cortes de Cádis, outros se afrancesaram ou então emigraram para a Inglaterra. Conforme tentaremos comprovar ao longo da dissertação, o grupo também se dividiu quanto à resolução dos problemas advindos do Antigo Regime e da Crise, propondo diferentes soluções não apenas para a Europa, mas igualmente para o Império Americano. Esse trabalho é, portanto, um estudo de como um grupo ilustrado tentou manejar a crise do Antigo Regime na Espanha ao mesmo tempo em que tentava manter o Império Atlântico, porém sob novas condições, e não repetindo a estrutura de colônia e metrópole. / Between 1808 and 1814 the Hispanic Empire was involved in a major crisis, which begun by the arrest of Fernando VII by Napoleon Bonaparte. With the French invasion, a section of the Spanish people resisted to the conquerors, and amid them there was a group of illustrated that made up, before, a tertulia. Under the leadership of Manuel Quintana, this group decided to publish the Semanario Patriótico, a precursor newspaper that interpreted the military crisis as a constitutional crisis and was trying to do a revolution. Among the peninsular difficulties, the American problem was the whole time a reason to be worried and to hope. At this point, there was one of the hardest discussions of the period, which related both to the status of the ancient colonies in the new order and to how to face the growing insurgences. In the face of the political and military issues, the founding band of the Semanario Patriótico split up, not only territorially, but also politically, and started new journals. While the majority of its redactors helped do define what was the new liberal party during the Cortes de Cádiz, others frenchfyed themselves or emigrated to England. According to what we will defend along the dissertation, the group also split up about the resolution of the problems coming from the Ancient Regime and from the Crisis, developing different resolutions, not only for Europe, but likewise to the American Empire. This work is, therefore, a study of how a handful of illustrated tried to handle the crisis of the Ancient Regime in Spain at the same time as they were trying to keep the Atlantic Empire, but under new conditions, and not repeating the old structure of colony and metropolis.

Este trabalho investiga as relações entre a regra da maioria e o princípio do dano de John Stuart Mill. Em suma, seu objetivo é descobrir de que maneira o princípio do dano funciona como um limite à regra da maioria. Diante disso, ao longo desta dissertação, examinam-se as dificuldades enfrentadas por Mill para conciliar utilitarismo e democracia, liberdade e razão. Este trabalho analisa, também, algumas ideias permanentemente presentes na reflexão histórica sobre o liberalismo: os conceitos de liberdade positiva e liberdade negativa; os diversos conceitos de paternalismo; e as muitas críticas dirigidas à regra da maioria / This investigation studies the link between the majority rule and the harm principle by John Stuart Mill. To sum up, the purpose is to find out how the harm principle operates as a limit on majority rule. As a result, throughout this study, we examine the difficulties faced by Mill to reconcile utilitarianism and democracy, liberty and reason. This dissertation analyzes, still, some ideas that were constantly present in historical reflection about liberalism: the concept of the positive liberty and the concept of negative liberty; the various concepts of paternalism; and the many criticisms of the majority rule.

Ainda que muitos trabalhos tenham sido escritos sobre a filosofia de David Hume, é bastante raro vermos comentários sobre o que seria, para ele, a própria filosofia. Na maior parte das vezes, os intérpretes da obra desse filósofo limitam a caracterizá-lo como cético, naturalista, realista, sentimentalista, entre outras categorias. Entretanto, falta-lhes, comumente, uma preocupação real em julgar as teses de Hume à luz daquilo que poderia ser considerado a sua concepção de filosofia. O que pretendemos com este trabalho é justamente indicar uma forma de lidar com os textos de Hume que permita iniciar uma discussão aprofundada da concepção que ele próprio tinha da atividade filosófica. Para isso, trataremos principalmente dos textos em que o autor discute especificamente esse tema, além de recorrer, quando isso se mostrar necessário, a outros aspectos da filosofia humiana. O resultado será uma leitura em que a filosofia é considerada como bastante próxima da vida comum, já que Hume se esforça consideravelmente para representar o filósofo um ser essencialmente social, cujas investigações são pautadas por uma experiência que ele compartilha com o vulgo. Além disso, veremos que, nos textos posteriores ao Tratado da natureza humana, Hume considerou a filosofia não como algo que deveria ficar restrito às universidades, mas como uma ferramenta poderosa de formação moral para o homem comum. / Even if many works have discussed the philosophy of David Hume, not many of them have discussed what might consider philosophy itself to be. Most of the times, interpreters of his works dont go further than characterizing him as skeptic, naturalist, realist, sentimentalist, among other categories. However, they commonly lack a real concern to judge Humes theses in the light of what might be thought of as his conception of philosophy. What we intend is exactly to point out a way of dealing with Humes texts which may allow an in-depth discussion of his conception of the philosophical activity. Therefore, we shall deal mainly with texts in which the author discusses this theme specifically, besides recurring, whenever it proves necessary, to other aspects of his philosophy. The result shall be a reading in which philosophy is considered as being quite close to common life, since Hume makes a considerable effort to present the philosopher as an essentially social being, whose investigations are backed by an experience which he shares with the vulgar. Besides, we shall observe that, in texts posterior to the Treatise of human nature, Hume considered philosophy not as something which should be restricted to the universities, but as a powerful tool for the moral formation of the common man.

Este trabalho investiga as relações entre a regra da maioria e o princípio do dano de John Stuart Mill. Em suma, seu objetivo é descobrir de que maneira o princípio do dano funciona como um limite à regra da maioria. Diante disso, ao longo desta dissertação, examinam-se as dificuldades enfrentadas por Mill para conciliar utilitarismo e democracia, liberdade e razão. Este trabalho analisa, também, algumas ideias permanentemente presentes na reflexão histórica sobre o liberalismo: os conceitos de liberdade positiva e liberdade negativa; os diversos conceitos de paternalismo; e as muitas críticas dirigidas à regra da maioria / This investigation studies the link between the majority rule and the harm principle by John Stuart Mill. To sum up, the purpose is to find out how the harm principle operates as a limit on majority rule. As a result, throughout this study, we examine the difficulties faced by Mill to reconcile utilitarianism and democracy, liberty and reason. This dissertation analyzes, still, some ideas that were constantly present in historical reflection about liberalism: the concept of the positive liberty and the concept of negative liberty; the various concepts of paternalism; and the many criticisms of the majority rule.

Through the works of Lord Byron and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, I explored the function of the themes of darkness and obscurity in Romanticism. There was a clear connection between the inclusion of these themes and the rejection of the Enlightenment period, which is what I focused on in this thesis. I discovered that the Romantics found inspiration and beauty in the darker, stranger aspects of the natural world, while rejecting the logical and rational beliefs of the Enlightenment.

My dissertation examines visual representations of children and childhood in French art from the 1750s until the first decades of the nineteenth century. This period in France is distinct because of the sweeping social and political changes with which images of children and childhood were in dialogue, including the redefinition of bourgeois familial relationships, new medical discoveries that influenced how artists interpreted the human mind and body, the chaos of the French Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon and his codification of the laws of nature. By 1750, Enlightenment thinkers and social reformers viewed the education, nurturing, and protection of innocent children as among the fundamental moral acts that defined humanity. Childhood, once considered insignificant, became a special period of human development that women were naturally suited to cultivate. Amidst the corruption of the Ancien régime, the violence of the French Revolution, and the instability of the state, children were unthreatening emblems of social regeneration and hope. Throughout my dissertation, I explore how the complex written and visual language of nature informed artists’ conceptions of children and childhood during the long eighteenth century. Opposing themes of nature’s wildness, containment, wholesomeness, and mysteriousness in different forms paralleled discourses on children and child-rearing. Prominent eighteenth-century artists like Chardin, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze, Vigée Lebrun, Marguerite Gérard, and others analyzed contemporary scientific, philosophical, artistic, and pedagogical movements to depict children naturally. Even when Romantic artists like Géricault or Prud’hon imagined nature as a dangerous or mystical entity, the emphasis on the unique truthfulness of a child’s character continued to be a subject of great interest, especially when the scientific community recognized child psychology and pediatrics as their own fields of medical study in the early nineteenth century. Compared to studies that have broadly surveyed the ideologies of childhood as reflected in art, my dissertation investigates the socio-historical contexts in which representations of children were commissioned, produced, and displayed. Why did revolutionary events, artists, and patrons appropriate images of the enlightened child? I propose that representations of children from this period offer indisputable symbolic value: they functioned emblematically to advance the morality of a woman’s reputation, or to philosophically communicate an idea about the state of French society during key moments of social and political upheaval. Through a study of images of pastoral children for Madame de Pompadour, representations of bourgeois children with pets, portrayals of the royal children during the French Revolution, and Romantic depictions of children in portraiture, my dissertation traces the socio-historical implications of the representations of children and childhood to make way for new interpretations of artworks.

[pt] Hobbes parece ser um dos autores mais controversos da Teoria Política Moderna. Desenvolveu ele um modelo de natureza humana, que trouxe para dentro da discussão filosófica uma física mecanicista cunhada em pleno século XVII e, ao mesmo tempo, uma noção de desejo ou conatus herdada de discussões renascentistas. Unindo estas duas noções, a partir de seu conceito de liberdade, produziu um sistema filosófico em que figura a progressão corpo – homem – Estado (ou corpo político). Nessa dissertação, pretende-se situar, dentro da discussão acerca da natureza humana no corpo filosófico da obra de Hobbes, os conflitos político-religiosos de que este participava e também que este atiçava, sempre tendo em mente o contexto inglês revolucionário (especialmente, o da Revolução Puritana de 1640) e o europeu do século XVII, buscando-se uma interpretação que una o viés doutrinário e aquele histórico de sua obra. Por meio da utilização da obra de consagrados historiadores ingleses e de novos intérpretes do pensamento hobbesiano, procura-se amenizar a visão negativa acerca de Hobbes, situando-o não mais como um ultra conservador absolutista, mas como um moderno/iluminista moderado, em busca de um ponto de equilíbrio para sua nova filosofia e de meio de solução para o conturbado contexto político inglês, que só poderão ser alcançados por meio da aceitação de sua visão da natureza humana. / [en] Hobbes seems to be one of the most controversial autors in Modern Political Theory. He developed a model of human nature which introduced in filosofical discussion a mecanicist physics that he created in the seventeeth century and also, at the same time, a concept of desire or conatus which he inherited from the Renaissance. Joining these two concept on his concept of liberty, he produced a filosofical system in which there is a progression from body – man – state (political body). This dissertation is intended to situate, within the discussion of human nature in Hobbes’ philosophical works, the political and religious conflict in which he took part and also the ones that he provocated, always having in mind the british revolutionary context (specially, the Puritan Revolution of 1640) and the seventeenth century Europe, in search for an interpretation that combines the doutrinary and historical views of his works. Through the study of traditional british historians and new interpreters of Hobbes’ works, this research tries to ease the negative vision of Hobbes, situating him not as a conservative supporter of absolutism, but as a moderate modern/iluminst, in search for a point of equilibrium for his new philosophy e for means to solve the problems of the complicated british political context. Both can only be found through acceptance of his point of view about human nature.