Dziecko w historii – jako główna idea podjętych rozważań

Abstract

Emphasizing the jubilee theme, we undertook another academic dispute devoted to the personal dignity of a child in a situation of restrictions, loss of freedom – complete dependence on others. It can mean restrictions concerning various spheres of human life, for example, physical limitation, i.e. making someone’s health and life dependent on the will of another, or restrictions of the mind leading to the blurring of one’s personality and, dignity due to various factors, including – as Karl Jaspers claimed – “breaking a man in two” under the influence of enormous ideological pressure. As a result, childhood, as a phenomenon affecting every human being, is still appropriated and enslaved in various ways, losing its unique, individual, subjective character, despite the fact that the humanistic approach to human existence is becoming especially important and – perhaps – most needed by people today.