Políticas do reconhecimento e o direito à educação: uma análise a partir das influências de Axel Honneth, Charles Taylor e Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

This study focuses on analyzing the Politics of Recognition and the right to education under the influences of three great philosophers: Axel Honneth, Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur. Each of them, in their own way, give a special contribution to compose normative and ethical theories about the recognition of the subject that leads to reach the autonomy, the capacity and the dignity of being. The research aims to demonstrate that recognition is, on one hand, an assumption of education (under the formal aspect) and, on the other hand, education works to achieve the substantial recognition. The philosophical contribution of Ricoeur is essential, because it broadens the horizon of recognition and does not limit it by the idea of struggle/conflict. Ricoeur innovates with the economy of the gift, which puts us to reflect about the importance of cultivating and encouraging the exchange of such relevant values as care, respect, cooperation and gratitude in social life. Besides, dissecting concepts as identity and autonomy, focusing at the person in its ontological foundation, we can see education as the thread that gives us a chance to live a good life, in peace, with and for others, in just institutions under an ethical perspective.