Abstract

BOGEA, Diogo. The human condition and the teacher condition: from the illusions of omnipotence to the recognition of helplessness. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2020, vol.34, n.71, pp.679-704.  Epub Feb 06, 2022. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v34n71a2020-48814.

Assuming that every educational process is openly or veiled guided by a certain way of understanding the human being, we seek in this article to question the ideals of "human," and consequently of human-teacher, that the Western tradition bequeathed to us. Next, we try to indicate some ways to rethink contemporaneously what it means to be human and, therefore, what it means to be a teacher. While the old ideals insist on projections of power and invulnerability by assuming an immaterial essence for the human, we bet on an incarnate, affective and desiring human conception that involves, on the other hand, the disposition to assume the irremediable helplessness and the unavoidable vulnerability that are intrinsic to the human condition.

Keywords : human condition; omnipotence illusions; helplessness.

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