O Estado no Pensamento Liberal Clássico: Uma Contribuição ao Debate Político na Geografia

Abstract

This paper is a discussion about State theoric ground on liberal thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the links with economic and philosophical order, which had established roots in Western Europe on that period. The paper try to define the role of the State in classical liberalism, its basic assumptions and articulations with capitalism and modern State. Furthermore, the work points out the course of the critics that was opposed to the established order and intended to introduce an alternative political and economic order.