Critics and alternatives to Social Justice as Education foundation

Authors

  • José Alfredo Díaz Fernández Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This paper’s objective is to draw critical consideration on “The Social Justice” as a foundation of education and the elaboration of an alternative proposal from a radical democracy viewpoint. The methodology is based on critical hermeneutics and, after that, the adaptation of a proposal of principles, institutions, and practices generated by the philosopher Enrique Dussel. The main results of this research are as follows: To show a material, intersubjective and feasibility articulation of educational democracy; the need to generate institutions where horizontal democracy governs and the functioning of an agonist education as criticism and alternative to the narrowness of Social Justice as a device for emancipation.

Keywords:

education, democracy, agonism, social justice, latin-american philosophy