TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY: FROM THE EUROCENTRIC UNIVERSE TO THE EPISTEMIC PLURIVERSE - AN INTRODUCTION
Teaching Philosophy. Eurocentrism. Pluriversality. African Philosophy.
The final product of the master's research will be a pedagogical support book to be published in physical and digital formats, whose objective is to reflect on the Eurocentric traits in the teaching of philosophy in basic education, while at the same time presenting a significant part of the philosophical production contemporary African society. Divided into four chapters, the book begins by discussing the geographical place of birth of philosophy, analyzing the hypotheses of Greek and Egyptian origin. In addition, the chapter suggests the hypothesis of pluriversal origin and presents philosophy as imminently human production. The second chapter of the book deals with colonialism on the African continent and how colonial conceptions invented Africa through the dissemination of detractive works of Africans, like the racialist conceptions of the philosophers Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Lévy-Bruhl. Black philosophers whose formation has given rise to these European thinkers are also presented to the reader to demonstrate the mistakes made by most Western philosophers. The third chapter presents contemporary African philosophical production, as well as the philosophical currents and epistemological paradigms that animate debates within the continent. The fourth and final chapter deals with the teaching of philosophy in Brazil. The methodology adopted is the documentary exegesis of legal provisions of the Brazilian State, textbooks and other didactic-academic productions of Western philosophers and African philosophers. It is hoped to help philosophy teachers in the presentation of pluriversal philosophical thinking in the classroom, demonstrating the existence of philosophical currents beyond Eurocentrism.