Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ERIK VINICIUS TORRANO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ERIK VINICIUS TORRANO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO
DATE: 21/11/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala 212 do Bloco Zeta do Campus São Bernardo da Universidade Federal do ABC
TITLE:

Charles Taylor's political philosophy in dialogue with egalitarian liberalism

PAGES: 80
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUMMARY:

The dissertation has as its main objective to investigate and understand the thoughts of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, especially with regard to his reflections on ethics and politics. To do this, we will first investigate the concept of identity, to understand how it plays an important role in understanding issues surrounding ethics and politics. After this moment, still in the first chapter, we will clarify the author's philosophical perspective on language, as well as the role it plays in individual and community identity.

In the second chapter of the text we intend to use the political reflections of John Rawls and Will Kymlicka to understand in greater depth Taylor's political thought through its similarities and differences in relation to the thoughts of two exponents of contemporary liberalism. It is necessary to inform readers that we chose to take a look at this tradition, since addressing it in its entirety would be a more extensive work than the research project intends to carry out. Therefore, we chose as the main representatives of contemporary liberalism the philosophers John Rawls and Will Kymlicka. The philosophers in question were selected because their positions seek to equalize liberal foundations with social concerns, as Carlos Matheus well describes, when he asserts that the thought expressed by Rawls, in the work A Theory of Justice, seeks to overcome an existing dispute between individual freedoms and collective freedoms. . In this same sense, writes Denilson Luis Werle, when he highlights the centrality that Rawls's book had in the contemporary political philosophical debate, since it was also criticized by philosophers of his political line of thought, who sought to provide their own philosophical solutions, the from the liberal tradition, to the liberal-egalitarian foundations of a society, that is, responses that can “reconcile individual freedom and social equality” (FORST). Therefore, we chose to choose the aforementioned philosophers because they are the representatives of the liberal political current who provide, in their reflections, a greater concern with issues of social equality and collective freedoms, concerns that are often left in the background by other representatives of the chain.

In the third chapter we intend to return to the investigation of Taylor's works, so that we can, perhaps, understand what the other liberal model with a republican basis would be, which is the alternative model to “procedural liberalism”. In this chapter we will work on important concepts to understand in depth the author's political proposal, investigating concepts such as “social goods”, “social imaginary and hypergoods”, “civil society”, “institutions” and “freedom” - to in addition to negative and positive freedom.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - Interno ao Programa - 1837751 - FERNANDO COSTA MATTOS
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Externo ao Programa - 2923651 - BRUNO NADAI
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - FLÁVIO AZEVEDO REIS - NENHUMA
Membro Suplente - Examinador(a) Interno ao Programa - 3066348 - MICHELA BORDIGNON
Membro Suplente - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - DEBORAH MOREIRA GUIMARÃES - UERJ