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| Author(s): |
Cândido Moreira Rodrigues
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Assis. 2014-06-11. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis |
| Defense date: | 2006-03-29 |
| Advisor: | Milton Carlos Costa |
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This dissertation studies the Catholic intellectual Alceu de Amoroso Lima in the historical period from 1928 to 1946 and it was carried out to prove that this intellectual evolved from conservativeness to democracy, in that period, while he discarded his authoritarian ideas - derived from his contact with Jackson de Figueiredo and the thought and works of European conservative writers of the 19th century, such as Edmund Burke, Louis-Ambroise De Bonald, Juan Donoso Cortés and, in particular, Joseph De Maistre. Alceu Amoroso Lima approached democracy by establishing personal contact with the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain and, by reading his works, he accomplished such a process at the beginning of the second half of the 1940s, more specifically in 1946. The evolution process experienced by Alceu Amoroso Lima towards democracy took place in one of the most decisive periods of contemporary world history, the 1930s and the 1940s, with the ascension and fall of totalitarian regimes, the chase after Jews, Communists, and the debility of freedom and democracy. Alceu Amoroso Limaþs action during Getulio Vargasþs government carries the burden of comprising both his defense of the authority principle and freedom restriction, but also shows the posture of an intellectual who, by having close contact with Jacques Maritainþs democratic philosophy, learned how to discard unsustainable positions and, in time, to convert to democracy and freedom, while other ones kept silence. (AU) | |