Entre a incerteza radical e o chamado à responsabilidade: uma leitura do princípio da precaução e da dimensão política do risco ecológico à luz de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the contributions of Hannah Arendt's political thought to the legal-philosophical interpretation of the precautionary principle and the confrontation of contemporary ecological risk. It adopts the analytical method, based on bibliographic research. To this end, it seeks to propose an interface between the precautionary principle, firmly anchored in the field of environmental law, and the defense (or constitution) of a democratic environmental policy to face ecological risk from an arendtian perspective. In order to accomplish this objective, it analyzes, at first, the position, the guarantees and the nuclear characters of the precautionary principle within the Brazilian legal system, signaling its close relationship with ecological risk and unfolding the genuinely political element within it. It recovers the Arendtian diagnosis and critique of the twofold phenomenon of modernity called "world and Earth alienation", concretized, on the one hand, by the absorption of the common world (of culture and politics) by the mass consumption society, and, on the other, by modern science in its search for an "archimedian" and universal point of view (human action on earthly nature) , highlighting its defining elements and its impacts on the world and nature, as well as its risks. Finally, it combines categories arising from Hannah Arendt's thought with a critical assessment of the precautionary principle, in order to demonstrate that her work offers subsidies for the construction of a political-democratic reading capable of shedding light on the environmental crisis and the ecological risk. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]