Abstract

This paper originates in a comment made by late Professor Oswaldo Porchat Pereira, about the alternative structuralism x non-structuralism. The paper tries to examine the pros and cons of structuralism as a method of research in Philosophy, and also the limitations it can puton the free philosophical thinking. In the first part, it examines the emblematic paper by Victor Goldschmidt, “Temps historique et temps logique dans l’interprétation des systèmes philosophiques”, a kind of “manifesto” of the structuralism in Philosophy. In the second part, it makes some criticisms to this method, taking as a point of depart the paper by Porchat “Speech to the students about research in the field of Philosophy” (PEREIRA, 2010). In the conclusion, it makes an evaluation of the debate, trying to get a stand face the dilemma put by Pereira: structuralism or not-structuralism?