Moral, afeto e política: resistência à tirania no contexto da peça Prometeu Acorrentado de Ésquilo

Abstract

The manuscript draws on the field of confluence between law and literature, making use of a creative hermeneutic methodology to, from the analysis of Aeschylus' dramaturgy, more precisely the play Prometheus Bound, infer and illustrate applicability of concepts of contemporary philosophy. From Michel Foucault: surveillance, capillarity of power and sovereignty. In a second moment, from Richard Rorty: the pragmatist theory of justice as extended loyalty, postulating a redefinition of the concept of self. In other hand, the text also discusses concepts such as emancipation, knowledge and tyranny. The article concludes a rejection of the Kantian idea of unconditional moral obligations to defend a reconstruction of the normativity of morality as contextual and contingent. Finely, from the perspective of this article, Aeschylus' text illustrates the thesis that we can think of moral progress as a matter of increasing sensitivity.