Town Meeting: em busca da liberdade social no processo coletivo

Abstract

This work has as fundamental axes the values of justice and freedom, applied to the collective process. It aims at analyzing the process standard elected and developed in Brazil, with its repercussions on the collective process, seeking an alternative line for the enforcement of justice through social freedom. In this way, it discusses the possibility of the Town Meeting’s standard being a concretizing instrument of social freedom in the collective process. In order to do, it talks about the problem of ineffectiveness of the collective process in Brazil is analyzed through a critical analysis. It adopts the typology used by Edilson Vitorelli as a way of beginning to overcome this problem. Based on freedom, Axel Honneth’s understanding of social freedom is understood to be applicable to the collective process through the development of the Town Meeting standard, which brings to the process those involved, giving an active voice to the formation of the will in a democratic way. Methodologically, a bibliographical review and use of the deductive and inductive method will be carried out.