Implodir o eurocentrismo e interculturalizar o currículo da filosofia

Imploding Eurocentrism and interculturalizing the curriculum of philosophy

Abstract

Here I present the outline of a proposal for a general reformulation of the curriculum of philosophy as an academic discipline in Brazil. I take M. A. Werle’s article as emblematic of this Eurocentric, monoepistemic and monocultural philosophical
upbringing, which explicitly does not recognize the existence of Eastern or African philosophy, reproducing the epistemic racism that was structured in Europe around Immanuel Kant’s writings on Anthropology. As a counterpoint to Werle’s attitude, I recall the willingness to engage in dialogue with Chinese philosophy exercised by G. W. Leibniz and especially by Christian Wolff, who was the victim of a violent academic censorship against his essay on Chinese Practical Philosophy in the eighteenth century. A new curriculum for philosophy courses can be inspired by Unicamp’s Colloquia on Oriental Philosophy and by Meeting of Knowledges movement. By adapting the Leibnizian Wolffian open stance to the Brazilian reality 200 years later, we will put Western, Eastern, Indigenous, Afro-diasporic and other philosophical traditions on an equal footing.

Keywords: Eurocentrism, intercultural philosophy, racism, pluriepistemic curriculum, Meeting of Knowledges.