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The Teaching Project Political Vocabulary of Antiquity: Reflections for the Exercise of Citizenship appeared in 2016 at UFPB. Its main objective is the creation of teaching materials that stimulate the teaching of Ancient History from an interdisciplinary perspective and from the textual sources that address the forms of government. With this, our expectation is that the student will have direct contact with the source and, thus, reflect on themes that are essential for the current political life, as participation of the people in democracy. In this paper, we will present some results of our experiences carried out in the years 2019 and 2020, seeking to demonstrate the importance of teaching Ancient History for young Brazilians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 'political history of truth' promoted by Foucault reaches several times ancient Greek world. In one of those occasions he analyses Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. His point of view is consistent with theorists like Jean-Pierre Vernant whereby tragic contests plays a civic function in the environment of democratic polis. This paper discusses Greek judiciary practices and his mechanisms of truth, pointing tragedy as privileged document and possibly watershed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to settle a relationship of reciprocal elucidation between two surprising platonic utterances. The first one, in Republic (428 E), is "a city established on principles of nature" (kata physin oikistheisa polis); the second one, in the Statesman (308 D), speaks about a "the true natural art of statecraft" (kata physin alethos ousa politike). The comprehension of the two platonic formulas, in their contexts, allows to verify the coherence of the political thought of Plato in his late works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to develop certain of tyranny in Plato's Republic, Book IX. It takes into account not only the pleasures as principle of the dissolution of "logismos" but also the platonic intention of structuring the man's negative paradigm, its thinking, its affections, its actions -the tyrant-, as the opposite of the philosophical soul in its "celestial paradigm" or the man's paradigm, who uses "logismos", who has autarky and who knows what one's care is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two basic themes are discussed and examined in this paper: the incorporation of ten new members into the European Union frame and the creation of institutional-legal structure supported by a Constitution. To do so, I propose, on one hand, to reconstitute the political-institutional steps which covered the period coming from post-war Europe, fragmented and weakened, to a post-Cold War Europe ready to spread throughout the continent. This process began in May 2004 with the incorporation of ten States of Eastern Europe. On the other hand, I intend to reproduce the institutional debate between a Federal Europe and a Europe of States, debate which conducted to the presentation to the European Council of the project of the new Treaty of the Union, which met in Salonika, in June 2003; second, to the discussion of the text of the first European Constitution, in the Summit of Heads of States of EU, held in Brussels, December 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]