De coisas a pessoas: sistemas, emergência e reconhecimento a partir de um estudo da escravidão no Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Daniel Mendes Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teoria do Reconhecimento; Escravidão no Brasil; Teoria dos Sistemas; Emergentismo; Pessoa e Coisa; Direito
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-8XSN8H

The aim of this paper is to discuss the problem of the dichotomy between the concepts of person and thing, one of the foundations of modern legal systems, in an attempt to overcome this dichotomy in a context in which the separation between the two concepts seems insufficient for a proper understanding of the phenomenon of personhood. In order to do so, the person was defined as being part of a system, from which the manifestations of its personality emerge. The mechanism by which personhood emerges can be read as the one that drives the dynamics of the struggle for recognition through intersubjective patterns of social interaction, as forces that push for the construction of identity claims on social settings. Seeking to test the applicability of this theoretical model, a case study of Brazilian slavery was chosen, particularly to try to understand how the tension between person and thing was processed in the peculiar figure of the slave, the human being who is owned by others. At the end, it was noticeable that the case of the Brazilian slave, of the conquest of his personhood, is representative of a broader social phenomenon, which is, today still, the motive behind ongoing struggles for recognition. Being a person means becoming a person, which requires the act of presenting oneself as a person in face of the others, and the confrontation of the resistance one must encounter against acts of affirmation of personhood.