Philosophy and literature: dialogue motivated from Platão and Tchekhov

Abstract

This article aims at presenting approximations between philosophy and literature and discussing their importance to education. These two areas of knowledge, through the wisdom and civilization processes that surround their writing, dialogue in different ways, contributing to the formation process of the human being. This study, which is bound to the research line of Education, Languages and Technology, from PPGEd/UCS, is supported by the assumptions of Plato and a brief analysis of a short story by the Russian writer Anton P. Tchekhov (1999), representing the classic literature. Both disciplines constitute valuable tools for an education committed with the humanization of the individuals.