Philosophy teaching as self-care ethics: experiences in a military school in the extreme south of Bahia

Abstract

This text aims to problematize philosophy and its teaching, highlighting philosophical experiences produced in high school at a military college. Through concepts by Foucault, Larrosa, Cerletti, Kohan and Gallo, among others, we seek to think of philosophy from the perspective of self-care and the aesthetics of existence. As a methodological reference, we make use of bibliographic research, as well as approaching the school environment with inspiration in the cartographic perspective of research as monitoring processes and not preconceived certainties. The results show weaknesses regarding the teaching and learning processes in philosophy; on the other hand, they point to the potential of promoting creative philosophical experiences through teaching and learning based on philosophy as ethics of self-care or aesthetics of existence, thus stating that it is possible to teach philosophy that produces critical and creative philosophical experiences with young people.

Keywords: Philosophy. Teaching. Militarism. Aesthetics of existence.