ABAUT WHY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY NOWADAY

Although we can not say that globalization is a exclusive phenomenon of our days, thanks to the development of information and communication technologies, they have collaborated with the homogenization of cultures on a global scale. As a consequence, a diffusion has been raised at the borders between different cultures. In this scenario, the school in general and the formation in philosophy in particular, occupy a substantive place. As Vaz Ferreira has pointed out at the beginning of the twentieth century, philosophy fulfills the function of forming free spirits. Philosophical thought, in fact, collaborates in seeing reality beyond mere appearances.