Filosofía, investigación y educación: Relaciones e implicaciones en el contexto actual

Philosophy, research and education: Relations and implications in the current context

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze the interactions and implications between philosophy, research and education in current scenarios. To achieve this end, attention is focused on the following aspects: 1. Summarizes the central problem of Western philosophy, whose emergence was linked to the astonishment and questioning of natural phenomena that, over the centuries, was welcoming and leaving aside aspects of a diverse nature, but having in common that, in each historical stage, it has promoted its link with various branches of knowledge. 2. It broadly outlines the dimensions of philosophical research, which includes the questioning of philosophy itself, of science, and the emergence of critical positions towards research focused on a single meaning and scheme of thought. 3. It presents the relationship between philosophy, research and education, where philosophy is assumed as a required tool to enhance the rational capacities of the human being, as a means of permanent questioning for science, a fact that prevents the homogenization of knowledge and education in uncritical positions. The hermeneutic-documentary method was used. Conclusions are that, although philosophy and education have taken different directions, they share a concern for otherness, the social and the critical formation of citizens, elements required to guarantee human dignity in the 21st century.