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The subtitle of this contribution is ‘a sketch of a philosophy of childhood and the child’. The article introduces a new perspective on childhood and the child, which may be characterised as psychological, or rather which draws on psychology for its starting point. Childhood is perceived as a period in which every individual experiences sorrows. These sorrows are of two types – sorrows which stem...