Direito de resistência em John Milton

Abstract

Our thesis has the intention to analyze the idea of a right to resist in some writings of John Milton produced between 1649 and 1654. To accomplish it, our text departs from a historio- graphical balance of the Puritan Revolution, passing through the social imaginary of the XVII, and arriving on the innovating ideas of John Milton. We based our perspective on an existence of a social imaginary and on the possibility of the agent to confront and change it. Confronting the pamphlets of John Milton with others political texts of his time, our thesis has concluded that he faced the political polemics reevaluating some concepts and symbols of his time. Modifying the concept of state, people and justice at the same time that he changed the role of the sovereignty on a political community, Milton founded a new theory of a popu- lar republic through a republican language. With a new set of symbols and concepts, he defi- ned the popular resistance as a right based on a popular sovereignty and on a justice achieved by the use of the reason