POVO E GOVERNO: SOBRE A QUESTÃO DA PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR EM MAQUIAVEL

Authors

  • José Luiz Ames Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v24i1.53412

Abstract

Machiavelli's interpretive tradition recognizes the centrality of the people as a political actor. However, on the function it performs there is a wide spectrum of interpretations. At one extreme are those who conceive it as a passive entity, without autonomous political initiative. In the other, those that give it an active role in the government of the city. Although Machiavelli himself speaks of the people as animated by a "negative desire", this does not result in a popular passivity. In this work we will show that the people are autonomous active political actor who acts in the public scene in two main ways. An extra-institutional form exercised by the conflicts through which people struggle for laws. It is an intra-institutional form exercised through the legal and institutional structures with which the people act with the laws.

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Author Biography

José Luiz Ames, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - UNIOESTE

Departamento de Filosofia

Área de pesquisa: filosofia política moderna

Especialidade: Maquiavel

Published

2019-08-15

How to Cite

AMES, J. L. POVO E GOVERNO: SOBRE A QUESTÃO DA PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR EM MAQUIAVEL. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 24, n. 1, 2019. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v24i1.53412. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/53412. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.