O Iberismo no pensamento político brasileiro e a mentalidade iberista da elite política nacional na Primeira República (1894-1906)

Abstract

Iberism, our tradition of Iberian heritage, is one of the distinctive traits of Brazilian political thought. Formed from Iberian Modernity, it is the result of a series of choices consciously taken by the Iberians in the 16th and 17th centuries and which distinguished them from the Modernity emanating from the Anglo-Saxons, leading them down a different intellectual, philosophical and political path. This intellectual and political heritage to which Brazil was bequeathed is recognized by Iberist authors, who treat it as a fundamental element of Brazilian specificity and who value it, each in their own way, as a reference, not as a delay. Moreover, the Iberian heritage is present in the mentality of the political elite of the First Republic, which, by not breaking with central values of imperial politics, maintains tradition as a conditioning factor. Among liberals, republicans, conservatives and positivists, the appreciation of the State, of political and social hierarchization, of the integrative and plastic aspects of the Iberians was a common point.