Banca de DEFESA: SARA LOUISE AQUINO ALMEIDA PEIXOTO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : SARA LOUISE AQUINO ALMEIDA PEIXOTO
DATA : 18/03/2024
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual
TÍTULO:

THE EDUCATION OF THE IMAGINATION: AN ARISTOTELIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Imagination; Images; Senses; Sensory perception; Education; Knowledge.

PÁGINAS: 183
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Filosofia
RESUMO:

When reading fairy tales to high school students, as a Philosophy teacher, I saw not only their enjoyment of the moment, but also the contributions that these texts had to offer in the formation of philosophical consciousness, through their imaginative presentation of reality. After an accurate approximate reading of philosophical texts, we arrived at an assertion that the image can be an enabler or an obstacle to knowledge and that the imagination is a vehicle for interpreting images. This dissertation seeks, through the analysis of the work Da Alma and some other texts by Aristotle, not only to conceptualize what imagination is and how it is a condition for knowledge, nor only to characterize the other faculties of the soul that will be listed. together with its functions, within the psychology and epistemology of the Stagirite, but also through understanding this process, understanding the importance of educating our imagination as a resource for the Teaching of Philosophy. In the first part of this work, based on the reading of Aristotle, we seek to develop our hypothesis that there is a process of internal apprehension of human knowledge, which needs to be respected to the point that educational projects must be based on it. We will try to update the question proposed from the Stagirite, using the thoughts of two philosophers/poets, G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, regarding the importance of phantasia/imaginatio. According to these contemporary writers, there is madness, escape from reality and lack of commitment to being in the rationalist and idealist cultures of the current centuries, in great contrast to what occurs with fantastic literature linked to what they call “fairy tales”. In effect, modern man has acquired bouts of madness, according to the Orthodoxy of G. K. Chesterton (2018), which makes him reject the universe and create a parallel reality for himself, according to a structure of thinking in which modern reason imposes a gap between the world he imagines and the principles of being. From C. S. Lewis we approach works such as The Discarded Image (2015), The Weight of Glory (2017), and his booklet The Abolition of Man (2005), aiming to think about an education of man that values the cultivation and exercise of imagination, according to the deepest roots of common experience. From these two authors, we seek to explain how classic fairy tales are rich in reasonableness, because they are the result of an imagination that is willing to mediate the experience of reality and reason, according to a tradition fed by common sense, revalued by Aristotle, Chesterton and Lewis. Finally, in the last section of the dissertation, these discussions will inspire action research, to be carried out as seminars, as recommended by Mortimer Adler (2014), described in his text How to speak, how to listen, aiming at the use of fantastic texts (myths and fairy tales) for the introduction to philosophy of students in the 1st and 2nd year of high school. The texts will initially be read aloud and then, in an exercise that involves imagination and thinking, they will serve as a basis for discussing philosophical problems linked to sub-areas of Philosophy, to which the same texts lead us.

 

 

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - MARKUS FIGUEIRA DA SILVA - UFRN
Interno - 4891 - GALILEU GALILEI MEDEIROS DE SOUZA
Presidente - 8095 - LOURIVAL BEZERRA DA COSTA JÚNIOR