In the Name of "Straight Conduct", Mutual Help, Honest Industry and Peaceful Coexistence: Reflections on Instruction and Moral Education (1824-1827)

Abstract

In this article, I explore part of Silva Lisboa’s production, where he reinforces state religion and the articulation between science and revelation, a condition to reach a “higher stage”, whose best example could be seen in Great Britain. In my view, with the Constitution of the Brazilian Empire, it was necessary to outline the grounds for a straight conduct, thus associating moral science and theology as a strategy to fight the catechisms of libertinism.