Open AccessPoczątki są zawsze trudne? O dzieciństwie, polityce i filozofii
Author(s) -
Bárbara Weber
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
filozofia publiczna i edukacja demokratyczna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2488
pISSN - 2299-1875
DOI - 10.14746/fped.2012.1.1.2
Subject(s) - creatures , philosophy , epistemology , psychology , biology , natural (archaeology) , paleontology
Humans are mainly rational beings and children seem to be “defective creatures”. In contrast to that popular and reduced concept of childhood, thinkers like Kant, Arendt and Lévinas explored the more complex anthropological concept of child in its Otherness. They regard childhood as a necessary aspect of the society. Kant in his essay What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking? calls for the early encouragement of reason.