From proper and appropriate philosophy to minimal philosophical didactics: introductory notes

Abstract

The article is to present the contributions of Dante Galeffi philosophical thought in defense of a minimal philosophical didactics for the teaching of philosophy and the concept of own and appropriate philosophy, placed in the context of human formation. The methodology used is theoretical-bibliographical, qualitative in nature with an analytical-hermeneutic approach. The guiding questions are: what is the meaning of an own and appropriate philosophy and how does it relate to philosophical learning? How does Minimal Philosophical Didactics differ or advance in relation to General Didactics? Given these questions, the text is structured in three parts: initially, it locates the poemmatic-pedagogical perspective of own and appropriate philosophy, addressing its theoretical influences and founding concepts. Then, the didactics in philosophy is examined, treating it as a philosophical problem. Lastly, the minimal philosophical didactics is questioned, considering it a pathway to philosophical learning at different levels of education. In the concluding considerations, the discussed problematics are revisited, and the importance of a didactics that is flexible and open to the occurrence of philosophical practice is highlighted. Thus, the minimal philosophical didactics, grounded in the poemmatic-pedagogical understanding of an own and appropriate philosophy, is a possibility of connective experience conceived in the space of poetic freedom, emphasizing the need to promote human flourishing towards a triethical sustainability: social, mental, and environmental.