O café filosófico: práticas no ensino médio.

Abstract

Dialogue is a characteristic element of the human condition. From the oldest civilizations, men teach and learn through it. In this sense, the present study revisits the assumptions that made dialogue an effective philosophical method for human self-knowledge and the implementation of specific teaching and learning culture. In the Platonic works, we find Socrates who, when using dialogue, constitutes it as primordial in his performance and thus makes it a philosophical method in itself, to reach true knowledge. In the transition from Antiquity to Medieval, Saint Augustine of Hippo presupposes, in his dialogical work entitled De Magistro, that the speaker has the primary intention of teaching. In contemporary times, the French philosopher Marc Sautet takes philosophy to a heterodox audience, outside the academic environment, and without prior preparation, guiding the interlocutors to discover in the depths of the philosophical tradition and with a dialogical language, the answers to their daily dilemmas. In this context, we reflect on the school event called “Café Filosófico” – Philosophical Coffee, held in 2016, at the Santo Antônio Institute (ISA), in Campina Grande / PB. Such an event is constituted as a Philosophy Teaching practice that, performed through dialogue, presents significant results for all involved subjects. For this, the present research is ordered based on some works of the aforementioned philosophers, among them: Apology of Socrates, by Plato; De Magistro, by Saint Augustine; and Um Café para Sócrates, by Marc Sautet; as well as other works by some commentators in the area.