Abstract:
In this study, we have the objective of presenting some considerations about two lessons present in José Soriano de Souza's compendium Lições de philosophia elementar racional e moral, published in 1871 in the city of Recife. He devoted most of his life to intellectual and public activities. His basic studies were at the Lyceu Provincial da Parahyba do Norte, in the Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro he graduated in Medicine (1860), and, finally, in Philosophy (1866), from the University of Louvain, Belgium. He was a professor at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife where he taught the disciplines: Public and Constitutional Law, Natural Law and Roman Law. After busy contest (1867), obtained the chair of philosophy of Gymnásio Pernambucano in which he had as competitor Tobias Barreto, a figure already known at that time. From this work, we have as objective to analyze two lessons among those present in the compendium, one about Logic and the other about Moral. With this, we observed that the author participated in the production of knowledge through prescriptions contained in the lessons we analyzed, interfering with the school culture inherent to the institution in which he taught.
Keywords:
school textbooks; philosophy; teacher-author; secondary education