ABSTRACT
This article presents four dimensions of the subject of violence in the life and work of the French philosopher Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825): (1) through his multiple personal experiences; (2) in the opposition that he established between governmental violence and the pacifist productive activity of the industrial classes; (3) in the aporia between two social systems, one based on physical force and the other founded on the productive activity of workshops and science; (4) in the definition of a non-violent form of social change to bring about a transition between the social systems.
