Diderot e o teatro : gênero sério e educação estética à formação humana

Abstract

The concept of training (Education) adopted in this work aims to contribute to the evolution of human beings by developing in them the characteristics of the wise (enlightened) and the good (virtuous) and that, as a result of this, they are aware of their roles in society, enabling them to promote social well-being and the evolution of the species. An evolution based on the relationship in which happiness is achieved with the development of mutual social functions that benefit the group and not just individual happiness. Because it is with instruction about the sciences and the meaning of everything that surrounds them, that human beings are enlightened; and with the sacrifice of their private interests due to the collective interest that makes them virtuous. That is, enlightened and virtuous human beings form an educated and happy society, inclined towards evolution. However, for this training, it is necessary to walk along humanizing paths: those of Art, in particular, Theater. This work aims to corroborate the Diderotian precept that Theater is an essential path to the formation of human beings and that Aesthetic Education is necessary in the teaching/learning processes. Therefore, a new genre, like a precise path: the Serious Genre. This method of instruction is configured in the representation of situations/conditions of practical social life, of the events, such and such, of everyday and routine life which are the object of Dramatic Art: representing the human being in all its organic whole; his relationship with himself, with his fellow man and with his surroundings. In this sense, Diderot's concept of Education and its inseparable relationship with Theater is presented; his poetics that revolutionized Theater and the evidence that Aesthetic Education is necessary for the formation of the human being.