Frameworks, Identity and Action: Annotations Around the Political Meaning of Philosophy for Children

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to outline the way in which, from Philosophy for Children, a critical exercise of identity is thinkable and, based on this, to promote a revitalization of the political world, understood from the Arendtian concept of action. Revealing the referential frameworks and, once highlighted, submitting them to a dialogical, community critique, supposes the possibility ―perhaps utopian― of projecting from childhood and building a world worth living in the future. The methodology used is qualitative, hermeneutical in nature. The first section breaks down the Taylorian concept of identity in its link with referential frameworks and the idea of good. In the second section we focus on Arendt's double concept of the world, as a surrounding world and as a political plot. Finally, and taking Lipman's analyzes as a starting point, the political character of Philosophy for Children is outlined, understanding here the political with Hannah Arendt.