The arbitrary state

This is an analysis of the State and what motivates it to be; of the breadth of functions and powers and whether such breadth leads, intrinsically, to a path of arbitrariness. The incongruities that govern contemporary states are the major motivators that drive this research. The method used is the hypothetical-deductive one, within which thinkers who follow liberal, conservative and socialist currents of thought have been read, filed and studied. This research can be easily traced to the sources cited and the conclusions derived from them. The main results were that a strongly interventionist state, whether conservative in the moral sphere or socialist in the economic sphere, will be a state that creates a pattern of deindividuation towards its governed, which means that they come to flirt with obedience as a master value and, at the same time, consider themselves a mere extension of the whole, and no longer individuals.

Autorentext

Maurício Fontana Filho, researcher in Political Sciences, graduated in Law from the Regional University of the Northwest of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, UNIJUI.