Objetividade histórica no Manual de Teoria da História de Roberto Piragibe da Fonseca (1903-1986)

Abstract

In this paper we deal with “Theory of History” and “objectivity” ideas, transmitted in the propaedeutic written entitled Manual of Theory of the History and produced in College of Philosophy of Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro ambience by Boberto Piragibe da Fonseca, between 1943 and 1967. The professor of Propaedeutics class understood “Theory of History” as a construct of Metaphysic and Logic. With the Manual, Fonseca intended to legitimize the scientificity of discourse of historian and of history professor and make them a tool to intervene in order to combat the materialism and atheism in Brazil, in universities as well in high schools. The result this composition in term of historical knowledge objectivity was the idea that the works scientificity of historians and History professor in higher education would be ensured through a series of criteria of normative and operational validation. Such criteria took into account the respect to metaphysical, moral and physical laws, used according different weights in work validation, interpretation and exposition of facts.