O Apostolado Positivista e o projeto da Ditadura Republicana no Brasil (1889-1891)

Abstract

The aim was to seek, through a thorough, relevant information of political action of Positivist Apostolate of Brazil in the transition between the Monarchy and the Republic. The time period (1889-1891) refers to the period the work of the first government of the republic, called provisional government, which had the President, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca. The work was divided into three chapters: the first emphasizes the context of the rise of positivist thinking through the actions of his mentor Auguste Comte in the intellectual debate in France. From this, we highlight aspects that serve to clarify the division between orthodox and heterodox positivists and later, as the positivist ideas spread in the Brazilian context. In the same chapter, it was also pointed out, the rise of the Positivist Church of Brazil, the trajectories of Miguel Lemos and Raimundo Teixeira Mendes to take direction and vice-director of the Apostolate. In the second was presented the political action of the Apostolate in an attempt to forward the interim government for a definitive political regime of dictatorship. Having failed his political project, the group began to advocate the implementation of articles of the constitution of 1891, which for different reasons had aspects that were similar to the policy taken by the apostolate as adequate. In third was shown the influence of positivism in different important topics at that time in Brazil, such as education, separation of church and state and the labor movement. The persistence of positivist motto "order and progress" in the national flag today, is among the symbols of Orthodox militancy. The members of the Positivist Apostolate had no your project Sacrament of dictatorship despite the strong influence of positivist doctrine in Brazil by two ways, first by following the recommendation of Comte to deny political office, the second by the positivist doctrine isn?t organic with a coffee oligarchy that would guide the base structure of the country.