THE STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE YEAR OF PAULO FREIRE’S BIRTH CENTENARY - THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE UNTESTED FEASIBILITY

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Abstract

After the protests of June 2013 and the coup de e’tat of 2016, the political scenario in Brazil has been under constant threat from forces that put the Rule of Law in jeopardy. In the year of celebration of Paulo Freire's birth centenary, this article aims to denounce those limit-situations and defend the importance of apprehending them as stood out realities that hinder the realization of the untested feasibility. Thus, we carried out a bibliographical research focused on the concepts of democracy and untested feasibility. To discuss democracy, we found support in the ideas of Marilena Chaui, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Rubens Casara. The postulations about the untested feasibility were based on works by Paulo Freire and some of his commentators, giving special attention to the writings of Ana Maria Araújo Freire. In this direction, we seek to comprehend the categories of thinking which underlie the untested feasibility (limit-situation; stood out reality; limit-act; testing action) and link them to that concept. We conclude by presenting some possible ideas that can guide us in the achievement of the untested feasibility here proposed, a democracy marked by the values ​​of equality of power, social justice and peace.