Verney e a ilustração católica: uma modernidade singular

Abstract

This dissertation analyses the work The True Method for Studying (1746) (O Verdadeiro Método de Estudar) of the Father oratorian Luis Antonio Verney, - specifically with regard to issues of modern science and jurisprudence. The book was written and considerate as an opposition to thinking neoescolastic, represented by the Jesuits, and as aligned with the philosophy modern of the end of the seventeenth century and beginning of the eighteenth century. This research questions this idea, argues that such themes, present in that work, are part of a project on convergence with the thought arises from the Order Oratorian in Portugal, which in turn approached the thought of Portuguese rule against the Jesuit Order and call for a "Science" and "Philosophy" "modern". We try to demonstrate that, while declaring their adherence to an idea "modern" and aligned with his time, Verney been appropriated not only the ideas called "modern" as these ideas from neoescolastic, not breaking and / or not open-hand knowledge of thought established by Jesuit, to propose a means of overcoming the Ignatian educational system. For these characteristics, the Verney’s work is representative of that we defined as Catholic Illustration.