READING FROM PHILOSOPHY, READING FROM LITERATURE: SOCRATES’ APOLOGY AS A DIDACTICAL STRATEGY IN THE POLIMODAL LEVEL

Abstract

This paper tries to continue the way started by a previous one about didactics of our own disciplines in the Polimodal Level, where we proposed to read a theatrical play about the philosopher Baruch Spinoza and analyze different aspects of it from both Philosophy and Literature. In this opportunity, we would like to show how it is possible to work with a philosophical text, Socrates’Apology, in both disciplinary spaces. Though many teachers use non traditional resources (literary texts, comics, movies, news’ articles...) in the teaching of Philosophy, usually it’s very hard to find bibliography which describes systematically how the experience could be concreted. Besides the philosophical questions that we could distinguish in Apology (Philosophy’s concept, philosophical method, pedagogic conception, ethical values…), from perspective of Literature this text allows to undertake its teaching from a present theoretical frame, the discourse’s theory. While we put in evidence the connections that exist between different discourse practices (artistic and non artistic) of one society and the differences between reality and discourse, the student will have the possibility of thinking about fallacy of some disciplinary prejudices that troubled his access to literary/philosophical texts and will open his reading of world as a big cultural text.