CONSCIÊNCIA IMAGINANTE, ÉTICA E LIBERDADE

FUNDAMENTOS PARA UMA EDUCAÇÃO FENOMENOLÓGICA

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss the phenomenological ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre as a theoretical and practical foundation for a transformative education. Starting from the Sartrean premise of the primacy of existence over essence, the study demonstrates that human reality is characterized by Radical Freedom – a condition manifested by the consciousness’s power to nihilate (negate) the given world. The research establishes the Imaginary Consciousness as the ontological matrix of this freedom, as it allows for the irrealization of the present and the projection of a future project. It is argued that this perspective demands a rupture with the pedagogical reproduction model, which, by promoting domestication and adaptation through bad faith, serves to maintain alienating structures, such as the logic of capital (Mészáros). In contrast, authentic education must be a perpetual movement of contestation – knowledge is a set of open problems that enables the subject to make oneself otherwise through choice and engagement. It is concluded that the educational act is an exclusively human praxis and the fundamental space for the formation of the contesting man, realizing the full humanization of the Being-for-itself founded on ethical responsibility.