Abstract
In order to facilitate the exercise of thinking about Brazil in the present time, the essay investigates the symptoms and clues of the difficulty in producing a national philosophical thought. Along with the need for philosophical decolonization. As a hypothesis, it is suggested to think since of the place from the perspective of Brazil, and not in a foreign way, as has been the case. To this end, the essay is based on the spectrum of Oswaldian anthropophagic invention, bey revisiting the critical propositions of Cruz Costa, Roberto Gomes and Paulo Arantes about the problem.
Keywords
Think about Brazil; Oswaldian anthropophagy; Cruz Costa; Roberto Gomes; Paulo Arantes; Own philosophical thought.