Philosophy and the Question of Childhood From the Death of Man to the Death of the Child

Abstract

If the French philosopher Michel Foucault proclaimed the "death of man" in his philosophy, the reality of childhood today confirms this by announcing the "death of the child." Today, philosophy, through its exploration of these two deaths, aims to emphasize the birth of a new form of humanity that encompasses childhood—not as an age stage, but as a symbolic concept that foresees the future of humanity by examining the dimensions and subtleties of the ethical gap between man and child. On this basis, this paper discusses the reality of childhood, not from the perspective of rights and conventions, but from the standpoint of the conceptual and epistemological foundations of this stage