ONTOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF CHILDHOOD: FROM THE PLURALISM OF IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD TO THE UNIVERSAL CONCEPT OF CHILDHOOD

It is not always clear why, but under normal conditions, most adults evaluate childhood as, albeit a short life study, but full of instructive and attractive meaning. Perhaps this perception of childhood plays the role of one of the essential motives for creating a “normal” adulthood. From this ontological position, the “child” does not disappear safely and completely into the world of “grown-up men”. “Childhood” is valuable in itself not only for itself, but it is the reputation of the entire human civilization, which, however, managed at certain periods of its history to fall into “infanticide” and cause the “disappearance of childhood”...