La presencia antropológico-filosófica de Max Scheler en la obra de Paulo Freire: el ser humano como ser de apertura

Abstract

This text aims to reconstruct, in the early works of Paulo Freire Education as a Practice of Freedom (1969) and Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), the presence of Max Scheler’s Modern Philosophical Anthropology in his book The Human Place in The Cosmos (1928), which originates a Philosophical Anthropology of the Openness. Freire’s reception of Scheler’s thesis focuses on the recovery of the consideration of the human being as an eccentric being, which means a being called to break with himself to become more. In Freire, human eccentricity is specified in three aspects or anthropological subcategories of openness: the humananimal difference, human openness and humanizing dialogue. It remains as a matter to investigate: the connection, in Paulo Freire, of human eccentricity with relationship and liberation, based on an anthropology of openness.

Keywords

• eccentricity
• philosophical anthropology of openness
• humanizing dialogue
• human being