Ecletismo e retórica na filosofia brasileira

de Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira (1769-1846) ao frei Francisco do Monte Alverne (1784-1858)

Abstract

The article deals with the eclectic philosophy of Victor Cousin and his
brazilian repeaters at nineteenth century, Silvestre Pinheiro Pereira and
Francisco do Monte Alverne. With Antonio Paim, Laerte Ramos de Carvalho
and Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, this literature review highlights some
philosophical issues of the famous sacred orator and priest-master, in view
of role of the Catholic Church as a major vehicle for the dissemination
and production of knowledge in Luso-Brazilian territory, through the
process known as civilizing mission. The main objective is to study how
the eclecticism was used as a rhetorical device to justify the limits, the
dispersion and the shallowness of the site philosophical debate. As a result,
we founded a national eloquence as the germ of a “Saquarema Time”, in
which the same words would serve to different politic positions.