A natureza política das ações humanas nas primeiras history plays de Shakespeare

José Dias; Junior Cunha

doi:10.32334/oqnfp.2024n54a966

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32334/oqnfp.2024n54a966

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The great chain of being, Divine right, "Machiavellian" thinking, Power and justice, Common good

José Dias

Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5339-8652

Junior Cunha

Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2069-1924

Abstract

It deals, first, with the ethical-political thought of the Elizabethan period and with the contrast between the Tudor precepts and the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli. Next, a synthetic examination of Shakespeare's first history plays is carried out, seeking to understand how the author approaches the political sphere at the beginning of his career. It is concluded that Shakespeare's characters transit over border territory — the sociopolitical frameworks that denote the struggle for power and reveal social pressures, privileges, prejudices and class interests, is a sample of the conflict between medieval ideas and an emerging impulse to a new set of ideas that can support a new way of seeing the world; that Shakespeare's characters do not occupy fixed positions in the chain of beings and, in some cases, act against this order; and that Shakespeare always seems to keep a certain distance from a strict hierarchical precept and unconditional obedience to anyone.

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 54 (2024): Dossier Philosophy of Technology II

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Other Themes

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Author Biographies

José Dias, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE)

Degree in Philosophy from the University of Passo Fundo - RS (1996) and Bachelor in Theology from Unicesumar (2014); Specialist in Teaching in Higher Education from Unicesumar (2015); Master in Canon Law from the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (1992); Master in Philosophy from the same Pontifical Urbaniana University, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (2006); Doctor in Canon Law also from the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (2005); Doctor in Philosophy also from the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (2008). Post-doctorate in Social Sciences at UNESP (Marília-SP Campus), project n 3761. He is currently Assistant Professor “D” at UNIOESTE, Toledo-PR Campus, where he was Coordinator of the Philosophy Degree course (from 12-2017 to 12-2021); researcher in the ETHICS AND POLITICS Research Group at UNIOESTE, CCHS, Toledo-PR Campus; Leader of the CRISIS research group at UNIOESTE, CCHS - Toledo-PR Campus; referee for philosophical, theological and legal journals.

Junior Cunha, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE)

Clinical Psychoanalyst. Editorial Manager of the Quero Saber Institute. Regular PhD student in Philosophy at the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy at the State University of Western Paraná (CAPES Scholarship). Master's and Licentiate in Philosophy from the same institution. He carries out research in the areas of Philosophy, Literary Theory and Theater with a focus on William Shakespeare. He writes and publishes mainly in the areas of Political Philosophy and Ethics. He is a member of the Toledo Academy of Letters (Chair 18) and of the CNPq-accredited research groups: Ethics and Politics; Crisis; and Chiasm: philosophy, science and art.

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