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Estado pastoral e governo político dos homens
Pastoral state and men's political government
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Abstract Using the Foucaultian framework, we examine here the basic assumption of the modern and contemporary political order, namely the decisive conception that men are governable. In the genealogical path opened by Michel Foucault we examined the political reworking of what was originally the Judeo-Christ... view more
Using the Foucaultian framework, we examine here the basic assumption of the modern and contemporary political order, namely the decisive conception that men are governable. In the genealogical path opened by Michel Foucault we examined the political reworking of what was originally the Judeo-Christian spiritual power of governing souls. For Foucault, the modern political government of men is situated at the intersection of two sets of powers foreshadowed in early Christianity: a) the pastoral art of conducting conduct displaced from the eschatological destination of souls to the calculated management of (biopolitical) biological life and b) the dual production of the knowledge necessary for good governance; the utilitarian production of the truth that serves the pastoral art of government itself and the pure or aleturgical manifestation of the truth with regard to the governable.... view less
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Pastoral power; Government; Driving; Truth; Modern state
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 75-87
Journal
Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 20 (2020) 2
ISSN
2178-1036
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed