Relações entre a retórica e a ciência na construção do discurso de apresentação da nova ciência civil de Thomas Hobbes nos Elementos da Lei Natural e Política

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Bonanno, Marcelo Cerquera [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Thomas Hobbes; Rhetoric; Science; Truth; Politics.; Retórica; Ciência; Verdade; Política.
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=7721005; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/59338

The present work aims to determine how rhetoric, truth and science relate to Thomas Hobbes' The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic. We will try to identify Hobbes's target audience from that point on to uncover the construction of his discourse and the manipulation of rhetorical techniques within the work. For this, it will be fundamental to establish a separation between two different uses of rhetoric in the Elements: rhetoric as object and rhetoric as instrument. The construction of a new scientific discourse in opposition to the traditional political discourses will mark a work that will have in the horizon the rupture with the Aristotelian and Latin tradition, giving rise to a political science that will have the difficult task of transmitting its results in a culture dominated by values already absorbed by discursive structures that deal with politics in a completely different way. To present the new and to deal with what must be overcome will be the double record in which will insert the first presentation of the Hobbesian civil philosophy. It will, therefore, be fundamental to identify Hobbes's political and intellectual enemies. Among those who can shake civil society and restore men to the state of nature by means of internal warfare, those who cry out for a public space open to the clash of discourses and those who question the indivisibility of sovereign power by the attempt to interfere in the elaboration of the laws are those that deserve special attention on the eve of the English civil war. Finally, we will attempt to show how Hobbes accommodates the new science in a discourse that seeks at one and the same time to spread the truth, to call the attention of a specific audience, to open space for dialogue through elements recognizable by the current culture, and to establish a severe criticism of tradition and to the marks left by it in multiple cultural dimensions.