O LUGAR DA PEDAGOGIA CRÍTICA FREIRIANA NA “ÉTICA DA LIBERTAÇÃO” DE ENRIQUE DUSSEL

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to show how it is possible to find, in the context of marxist experiences in Latin America, a project of an Ethics of universal character, which seeks, therefore, to subsume under its principles a selection of historical positions. This is the case with the “Ethics of liberation” by the Argentine philosopher Enrique Dussel. Thus, after exposing the organizational principles of a liberation ethic, which proposes the principle of production, reproduction and development of human life as the most elementary and central, we will show how Dussel finds a place for the reception and subsumption of the project of a Pedagogy of liberation, mainly articulated by Paulo Freire in his “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. It will be shown how this would fulfill, within that, the requirement that any ethical or moral system is only valid insofar as it does not leave any person or collective out of its mode of awareness, since all beings humans are worthy to have a voice and to be heard in the decision-making forum on matters that interest them.

Keywords: Philosophy and education; Ethics of liberation; Critical Pedagogy.