Amor-próprio e a reversão da  regra emocional central do Ocidente

Daniel P. Andrade

doi:10.47456/sofia.v12i2.42542

Authors

Daniel P. Andrade FGV EAESP https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5668-0813

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/sofia.v12i2.42542

Keywords:

emotional rule of love, self-love, emotional power, government, passions

Abstract

The paper discusses the transformation of the main emotional rule of the West: love. Reformation and Counter-Reformation readings of St. Augustine's work placed the rule of love at the center of 17th-century treatises on the government of the passions. The period of religious wars and the unification of national states meant that the Augustinian rule was shifted to politics, with self-love operating as a pessimistic reading grid for the conduct of subjects and adversaries. If in the first half of the century the Christian condemnation of self-love and the neo-Stoic government of the passions was confused with the nascent Reason of State, in the second half there was a reversal of the emotional rule. The Jansenist conception of how divine providence disposed of self-love to place the satisfaction of one at the service of the needs of others operated as a model for Political Economy and nascent liberalism. Enlightened self-love was thus affirmed as a political norm, mediated by the emotional device of commerce.

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Author Biography

Daniel P. Andrade, FGV EAESP

Professor de sociologia da FGV EAESP e pesquisador associado do Laboratoire Sophiapol, doutor e mestre em sociologia pela FFLCH-USP, com estágio doutoral na EHESS-Paris e pós-doutoral na Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Autor do livro Nietzsche – experiência de si como transgressão, Annablume, 2007 e de artigos nacionais e internacionais sobre o poder emocional nas sociedades moderna e contemporânea e sobre governamentalidade neoliberal.

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