Agressão : do Homo sapiens ao Homo economicus : desdobramentos políticos e educacionais
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2017-05-23
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Pinto, Viviane Carla de Melo Ribeiro
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This theoretical-analytical research proposes to analyze the phenomenon of aggressiveness
and its relation with the process of production of barbarism. The analysis comes from the
contribution of the Critical Theory of Society, especially of the philosophy of Theodor
Adorno. It tries to find the place for Ethology and Sociobiology, both in the Biological
Science fields – education and culture occupy the theoretical speech on this phenomenon
produced by their respective representatives, Lorenz (1974) and Wilson (1981). The
hypothesis considers that there is a tendency within biological studies to understand and
explain the phenomenon of the production of barbarism, linked to scientifically reductionist
determinations. What instigated us in the realization of this research was the understanding of
how the real arguments to Ethology and Sociobiology support the explanation about the
phenomenon related to human destructiveness, which, strictly speaking, have determinations
linked not only to the biological facet of the human, but also, and mainly, to the ideologies
that underpin actions in the field of science, politics, economics, culture, and society as a
whole. In general, the research corroborates the hypothesis. The theories of the authors
analyzed here suggest that barbarism, that is, irrational violence associated with ideologies,
has a biological origin. Following the ideology of social darwinism, the authors argue that
barbarism is the result of the aggressiveness associated to the instinct of animal survival still
present in the human being, independently of the social reasons related to them. Therefore, the
authors suggest that the materialistic scientific method is the way to understand and intervene
in this phenomenon. We conclude that the authors' theories are based on scientism, the fruit of
technical-instrumental rationality, typical of the ideology of an economic political system that
tends to place on individuals the blame for the social consequences of a society governed by
the class domain. Considering that barbarism, despite being a social phenomenon, the result
of rational planning, is also associated with the domain of human nature and the manipulation
of unconscious and irrational mechanisms, we conclude that even if education alone cannot
solve the objective causes Related to barbarism, It‘s believed in a political education that
seeks to work the subjective mechanisms linked to the process of the production of barbarism.
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Critical Theory , Barbarism , Aggressiveness , Ethology , Sociobiolog , Etologia , Barbárie