Life Concept: a debate in the light of education

• Main Author: José Luís Schifino Ferraro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019-12-01
• Series: Educação & Realidade
• Subjects: conceito de vida; discurso sobre a vida; epistemologia; educação; biologia
• Online Access: https://seer.ufrgs.br/educacaoerealidade/article/view/90398

Reestablishing the concept of life at the center of the epistemological discussion is essential to understanding its power and effects within a discourse that, prior to being scientific, is philosophical. In this sense, the present essay provides some insights into the concept of life by placing it in a kind of grid of intelligibility created according to authors such as Nietzsche, Bachelard, Canguilhem, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and others. Thus, it is a possible epistemological approach to this concept at the interface between philosophy and the biological sciences with practical references from the field of education, where its function has been observed.