¿Qué sentido tiene enseñar y/o aprender Filosofía?

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect critically on a topic

that affects all those who studying Philosophy,

somehow we have chosen as a way of life

"philosophize", an action that, in my opinion,

should be considered essential in the teaching

of philosophy as a discipline. One of the most

interesting challenges that usually confront

every teacher of philosophy is to try to answer

in an appropriate way to "utility test" imposed

by relatives and / or friends, who presumably

with the best intentions, assert (or interrogate

us, but almost rhetorically) that philosophy is

"useless" or "worthless". In these cases, first of

all, we should stop for a moment and ask what

sense of utility are they assuming? Probably

the sense that the "market society" imposes. In

the present work we offer reasons to think that

the real "utility" or the true "meaning" of

philosophy lies in his criticism and denaturing

power of the natural attitude of the ordinary

citizen. Assuming that it is inherent to the

human condition to think about philosophical

problems, we propose to consider that the role

of philosopher teachers would be to awake in

students the critical and denaturing attitude,

which perhaps, far from being absent, is just

asleep in them as a power that requires

updating.