A ação política segundo Éric Weil

Abstract

The dissertation investigates the concept on the political action in E. Weil, considering the conceptual deficiencies in the doctrinaire composition of the modern State. The guiding perspective of the assignment is based on the analysis of the key-category of La Logique de la Philosophie (1950), the masterpiece of the French Politician philosopher, entitled Action, and seeks its influence in Philosophie Politique (1956).

The research starts with the hypothesis that the theory of revolutionary action presented in Lógica da Filosofia, has no consequences in the theory of the Weilian state. Weil’s analysis seem to show that the concepts of action in Filosofia Política do not refer back to the previous main category. What suggests a programmatic impasse in the intellectual legacy of the contemporaneous philosopher.

The action research results from the announced hypothesis. The category of action is analysed, reorganised and clarified in confluence with theory and practice of Weilian’s thoughts.

The results of the investigation accentuates the necessity of moral parameters in the inner of the modern State. The political state can only be a cause of social changing when it keeps itself under the regime of moral transformation. The Weilian figure of the State acquires universal vocation. The conclusions of the dissertation shows a philosophical approach which broadens the sphere of the politician to beyond the National State’s borders.