Abstract

BARCELOS, Valdo  and  AZZOLIN, Maria Aparecida. Cultural-Biology – Love as epistemological fundament of the educating in Humberto Maturana. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.28, e023031. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v28.e023031.

This text is the synthesis of a few years of studies and research where the propositions of the Cultural-Biology, of the intellectual Humberto Maturana Romesín (1928-2021) are taken as the main epistemological reference. Our main goal is to reflect on the understanding of the learning process as a Biological-Cultural becoming, and that happens in an ecological context of learning. Our intention is to contribute to the construction of a human learning process, that has as its starting point some elements such as: cooperation, mutual respect, the acknowledgement of legitimacy and dignity of the other, to ‘let one show’, an education in which the learning has as its orientation the act of love (Maturana; Dávila, 1997; 2009; 2005; 2016; 2019, 2021). In this text we will approach Maturana’s proposition about love as the epistemological principal for the construction of a learning process that privileges the cooperation between human beings and not the competition. Our main argument starts from the understanding that competition presupposes, as a rule, the denial, the annihilation, the annulment of the other. Our proposal starts from the principle that we, humans, can build not only through competition, but through cooperation. To conclude, and as a way to enable this alternative to the learning process, we present what we call the three moments of learning: the knowing, the understanding and the comprehending, where Knowing is to be able to describe the phenomenon (problem/conflict) that presents itself in the daily living context; (2) Understanding – is to perceive the systemic/ ecologic relations in the local context where the phenomena happens and (3) Understanding – is to perceive the systemic relational web where the phenomenon happens to realize its possible consequences. Understanding is to identify where, how, and when we should act in the sense of avoiding and/or resolving a determined problem that surfaces locally and with the particularity it happens.

Keywords : Cultural-Biology; Love; Human learning; Humberto Maturana.

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