A Filosofia e seu ensino como phármakon

Abstract

This article goes back to Socrates and Plato to reach for elements that help us to think about the meaning and sense of teaching Philosophy through the concept of pharmakon. In the first section, we present a characterization that Socrates makes on Philosophy, its conditions and on himself as a philosopher in Phaedrus and in some other dialogues by Plato; the second section offers details of Plato's condemnation for writing in Phaedrus, taking into consideration the criticism of J. Derrida and G. Deleuze to establish what is at stake in that censure; in the third section, the pedagogical and political effects of such condemnation are presented, and also how it places Plato in a surprising opposite position in relation to his own teacher, Socrates. Finally, there are some conclusions of that combat and of its value for those who are now thinking the teaching of Philosophy in Brazil in the present moment.