Philosophy´s teaching in the face of prejudice and exclusion and women in the philosophical Corpus

Abstract

The history of Western philosophical thought is masculinized, which makes it clear that philosophy has or may have an ideological character (ideological in the sense of concealing illegitimate power relations) but may also possess an emancipatory potential that lies in its critical force. Once rejected and even marginalized today, one notices a fierce effort by women's intellect to free themselves from the bonds imposed on them by traditional moral education and religion. The woman feels that the time has come to free herself from captivity, to get out of the cave, that is to say, from confinement, from forgetfulness and silencing and to dare to think for herself, embodying the possibility of recovering her experiences, ideas and knowledge. This process involves the constitution of a non-sexist philosophical corpus, the identification of philosophers, the inclusion of feminine intellectual productions in works and curricula that allow the existence of internal debates that show the strength of feminine thought in the scope of philosophy, a thought that already generates its own theories that debate among itself.