Reason's children
Subtitle: Childhood in early modern philosophy
By: Anthony Krupp.
Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg. Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780838757215
Subjects: Children and philosophy; History of philosophy
First sentence: What are children? What can children know, and how should they be taught? What do infants deserve, during and after this life, baptized or not? What obligations do children have? Can children's play count as genuinely aesthetic activity? My study considers answers to such questions in the works of five early modern philosophers: Rene Descartes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Descartes : purging the mind of childish ways; title: Locke and Leibniz : understanding children; title: Locke : children's language and the fate of changelings; title: Leibniz : against infant damnation; title: Wolff : the inferiority of childhood; title: Baumgarten : childhood and the analogue of reason; title: Afterword; title: Appendix: Pierre Bayle, Response to the Questions of  a Provincial, chapters 177-78