Metafísica canibalizada: uma identificação do outro da filosofia política no pensamento de Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)

Abstract

The research started with the objective of repositioning, as a reconstructive task, the assumptions that would allow us to speak of an alternative standard of treatment of the domain as limited to the political, as not metaphysical. For this analysis, in contrast to post-metaphysical or anti-metaphysical models, our reading started from a re-reading of the thought of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), with an emphasis on his political philosophy. In the shadow of his reference philosophical work through which he systematized and distinguished metaphysics, both in metaphysics in general and in special metaphysics, Suárez took the fundamental normative step so that the concept of justice as equity was elevated to a central object of practical philosophy. Based on his concept of law and his model of democratic formation of the political domain, in relation to the non-strictly political domain, both remaining in the field of advertising. Considering the theological-political heritage and its risks to the process of social democratization, Suárez's relevance lies in providing a theoretical set whose practical purpose is associated with the effort to contain and overcome current destructive forces, equally theologically informed, marked by brutal violence, from the police to the professional politician, and which progressively persist in destroying the material conditions of survival, including modernization itself as a philosophical project.