TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY: FROM THE EUROCENTRIC UNIVERSE TO THE EPISTEMIC PLURIVERSE
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, which aims to reflect on Eurocentric traits in the teaching of philosophy in basic education, while presenting a significant part of philosophical production. Contemporary African. Divided into four chapters, the book begins by discussing the geographical place of birth of philosophy, analyzing the hypotheses of Greek and Egyptian origin. Moreover, the chapter suggests the pluriversal origin hypothesis 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 diffusion of detracting works of Africans, such as the racialist conceptions of philosophers Hume, Kant, Hegel and Lévy-Bruhl. Black philosophers whose formation was given at the same time 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 last 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 assist philosophy teachers in the presentation of pluriversal philosophical thinking in the classroom by demonstrating the existence of philosophical currents beyond Eurocentrism.