Znaczenie archetypu dziecka w filozofii europejskiej

• Authors: Zygmunt Pucko

Title variants

EN

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CHILD ARCHETYPE IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

It may seem that it is wholly impossible to associate a child with philosophy. However, as the course of history of European philosophy proves, numerous thinkers had reached for the child to explain their theses. Based on the history of philosophy one may state that the substratum of the child archetype had emerged already by the very beginning of philosophy. Therefore the genealogy of the discursive thought is also drawn from the child-like astonishment with the world. Undoubtedly, there are many more references to the child archetype. For instance, Socrates compared the truth and cognition to the development of human foetus and a child’s birth. Accordingly, Plato, by the means of the figure of a child had expressed the essence of philosophy. In the Enlightenment period and by the end of the 19th century the child archetype was referred to slightly otherwise. In these times it was considered mainly as an argument against numerous concepts justifying suffering of a child. In our times the idea of a child has been ranked as moral imperative and a rule of responsibility.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Białymstoku. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 141-153

Contributors

author

Zygmunt Pucko

• : dr hab. Zygmunt Pucko, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Collegium Medicum, ul. Kopernika 25, 31–501 Kraków, POLAND,