Abstract

GONCALVES, Ruth Maria de Paula; MAIA FILHO, Osterne Nonato  and  LOPES JUNIOR, Antonio Dário. The ontological meaning of work and the development of higher mental functions: preliminary considerations. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2019, vol.33, n.68, pp.925-957.  Epub Aug 30, 2021. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v33n68a2019-46626.

This study we aim to demonstrate how the work supports in the humanization process of the individuals. This is a theoretical study conducted by bibliographic research and divided into three main sessions. In the first moment, we present how the work is conceived by Marx and appropriated by Lukács and the representatives from Vygotsky’s school. In the second, we bring the tensions between the importance attached to the biological aspects and social aspects in the humankind’s development process, demonstrating how the tools’ production manage the progressive separation from the natural barrier, whereas it provides the increasingly social development of individuals. Further consideration will serve as a basis to indicate how Vygotsky’s theory underscore in its categorical building the relationship between the tools and the higher mental functions in the humanizing process of the individuals.

Keywords : Work; Tools; Higher .mental functions.

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