Bøger af Alfredo Chafunha Ramijo

This book whose title is Mundividências e Multivalências da Filosofia: Ecos do Estatuto do pensar em Moçambique brings together five texts written under different circumstances. However, its assumption becomes common - both socio-economic and pedagogical development can be grounded by the equality of intellectual capacities of each and every human being. Development is conceived not only as the increase of a country's economic output - as the World Bank suggests - but as the improvement of living conditions at both the individual and collective level. Intellectual equality is not equivalent to the leveling of different people's intelligences - as Psychology treats it - but a double conviction, individual and inter-individual. The book intends to be Philosophy's contribution to the life of each and every human being, and in particular to Mozambicans.

An education for emancipation starts from the assumption that every human being is capable of building knowledge without a relation of domination of the one who knows over the one who must learn. Therefore, it constitutes a problem for all societies, whatever the place and time to think about the condition and possibilities for its realization. So that education in its various shades (formal, non-formal and informal) may emancipate, that is, build autonomous subjects in thinking, speaking and acting, and, at the same time, manage the differences of individuals, as J. Rancière suggests, it is necessary that it: first, be a horizontal education where both citizens and educator and learner can recognize each other as being equal subjects; and, second, be practiced through the method of permanent self-construction. This method, on the one hand, allows every individual to become better and better in his or her daily life, both in personality and in knowledge and skills, and on the other hand, it generates the differences between individuals in the same society, which are justified by the belief of their inequality.

The texts of this book whose title - The different four interpretations on Achile Mbembe's Critique of Black Reason interpret Achile Mbembe's thought. The book constitutes a collection of essays by four Master of Philosophy students. The essays have the spirit of a review, since the authors have intended to critically analyze Achile Mbembe's book. The pretext for the elaboration of each essay was for an evaluation of its author at the end of the module on Critical Readings of Philosophical Texts, which took place in the month of April 2022. After their evaluation, a revision of each text was made, for a publication. In the review, each author had to identify the problem that Mbembe wanted to answer in that book; understand the thesis or proposal to the problem and the respective arguments that Mbembe presents in the same book. Finally, each was to provide a critique of both the thesis as well as Mbembe's arguments.