Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1993
Journal / Book Title
Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children
Abstract
Philosophy for Children appears to be completely new in the history of culture and of education. If this is true, then it is appropriate to ask why Why Philosophy for Children, here, now, in the late 20th century West? What was missing before now (or what is missing now) which leads us to think philosophy a reasonable thing to do with children? Why then, Philosophy for Children now? Because children have with the help of vast socio-economic forces, finally escaped their lowly status on the great chain of being, and been invented as individuals and thinkers. Because in a world of future shock, the authority of the young increases. Because it is the moment in the West for the disempowered to speak. For Western civilization in moral crisis, childhood is a powerful evocation, both of the potentiality of the human condition before its fall, and of our last hop
DOI
10.5840/thinking199310314
Book Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
0190-3330
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Kennedy, David K., "(1993) Why Philosophy for Children Now?" (1993). Collected Papers of David Kennedy. 7.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/dkennedy/7
Published Citation
Kennedy, David (1993) Why Philosophy for Children Now? Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 10(3): 2-6.