Do we inhabit flying arks linked with the Earth-ark?

Abstract

This article presents reflections by philosophers and historians of science on the myths of the Greeks and Brazilian indigenous peoples, the role of astronomy in the beginnings of the creation of modern European science and some pre-Socratic principles. The text also exposes understandings of the world of indigenous peoples and the world view underlying the movement of creation of science derived from the conceptions of the Pythagorean school. To demonstrate the strong influence of Pythagorean thought for centuries, we highlight Kepler's conceptions. This article emphasizes the Husserlian view, denouncing the understanding of the world as constituted by totally separate things and explaining the phenomenological meaning of the universe through the metaphor of flying arks: the home-places together with the Earth-ark. Through this bibliographic research, we aim to expose the understandings of thinkers to help the reader meditate on the fragmentation and hierarchy of values present in scientific knowledge and in the teaching of curricular contents in the world of school mathematics education. Assuming the phenomenological attitude, the teachers will seek to organize pedagogical activities that allow the student to attribute meanings, always being together with their students and carefully attentive and concerned with their path, with the other, with the world. Thus, they can contribute to the formation of people who walk harmoniously, going beyond the understanding of mathematized harmony established in the Pythagorean school and inhabiting ark-schools linked with the ark-Earth.