A intolerância à melancolia em David Hume

Abstract

In the context of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the intensification of hostility against the Huguenots in the 17th century, Pierre Bayle uses the notions of tolerance and intolerance to explain the difference between the effects of literal interpretation of the scriptures and the effort to understand. To explain Hume's political history, I employ the concept of melancholy to measure the challenge of escaping indolence and despair without yielding to the sectarian imposition of the idea and activity as resources to avoid confronting collective impasses. History would undergo the reverse tension between tolerating melancholy, to work through its reasons, and intolerance of melancholy, moving toward the anticipation of political effects.