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a “ética” do Primeiro Comando da Capital como elemento argumentativo

Abstract

In the Brazilian context, the criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, has demonstrated a relationship of value with its members, the product of the development of a strange but notorious empathy. In particular identification, through the “way of crime”, suggests a reasonableness moderated by discourses of equality, freedom, peace and justice, capable of guiding moral behavior. Given the usefulness of rhetorical means in the production of discourses, we aimed to promote an Aristotelian-based rhetorical analysis of the ethical constitution discursively referenced by the PCC. Through the communication established in the “statute of the PCC”, which is emphasized by the group, we investigated if and how the PCC proposes the grasping of a logic of values through the issuance of “virtues” that function as actions, norms, measures and procedures for the organic protection of the group; in verisimilitude, it behaves like the branch of the Intelligence doctrine called Counter-intelligence. In order to carry out a detailed observation of this “statutory” expedient mobilized in the construction of discourse, we turned to the framework of Aristotle’s ethical and rhetorical theories. We sought to understand how the normative of the PCC points to the (im)permanence of central notions in the configuration of Aristotelian ethics, especially in relation to virtue.

Keywords: Rhetoric; Ethics; Primeiro Comando da Capital; Criminal organization; Intelligence.