a philosophy with children for venezuela
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https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2025.88624Keywords:
philosophy with children, bolivarian republic of venezuela, training for freedom, citizenshipAbstract
In Plato's Allegory of the Cavern, the prisoners can only see and know the shadows cast before them. This text is often used to understand Platonic idealism and to illustrate the difficulties a freed prisoner faces as he moves towards the sunlight outside the cave, allowing him to see the reality of a world he could not even imagine. Philosophy is presented as a tool of knowledge and liberation, which helps man to free himself from the chains of ignorance and oppression; but, paradoxically, the benefits of this discipline have been intended for few people; only one prisoner manages to free himself, and if he returns to the cavern to tell everything he lived outside it, the rest of the prisoners could even kill him if he dares to strip them of their chains. Centuries later, in times of modernity, in The Conflict of the Faculties (1798), Immanuel Kant limits the scope of philosophy to the domain of specialists working in universities, presenting severe objections to the possibility that this discipline can express itself beyond the walls of these institutions. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has joined the objective of the UNESCO Chair of the University of Nantes to contribute to the development of philosophical practices with children, so this article aims to present how, in a Latin American country, in the current conditions that Venezuelan society is going through, it is possible to think of forming the civic freedom of the new generations of Venezuelans, completing the Platonic route of leaving the shadow of opinion to the light of Truth. Research aligned with sustainable development goals 10 and 16 for raising the need to reduce inequalities in the field of the study of philosophy and the urgency of training a new generation of citizens committed to peace and participation typical of a sustainable democracy over time.
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