The tradicional mindlest behind Chilean Letters: the study about the neothomists
treatises in the XVIII century
Enlightenment - Inconfidência Mineira – Tomás Antônio Gonzaga – Neotomism
– Treatises – Chilean Letters
This work seeks to understand the thinking of men who lived in the eighteenth
century, known as the century of Enlightenment, or enlightenment. Assuming that there
was no hegemonic thought, we studied the document written by the Minas Gerais
Ombudsman in the context of the Minas Gerais conjuration, the Chilean Letters. We
compared what was written in the Letters to the texts of neo-Thomist treatises in search
of traces of a conservative thought still present at that time.