This article proposes a reflection on the relations between education, catholic political militancy and philosophy in Brazil. It examines how the experience of political militancy in youngsters' catholic movements (Juventude Universitária Católica and Juventude Estudantil Católica) was constituted as an important socialization locus to the mentors of the for the first actions of the institutionalization of the university philosophical production in Brazil. The empiric material collected for analysis consisted of semi-structured interviews with 17 philosophers, ethnographic notes, and published testimonies, besides the information collected from the institutional data basis (Plataforma Lattes, CNPq).
philosophy in Brazil; catholic political militancy; Brazilian philosophers; the institutionalization of philosophy in Brazil; political militancy