Pratiche educative di comunità. Una prospettiva storica

This paper focuses on a common aspect between of the experiences of Philosophy for Children and other experiences of philosophical practice: the community as an inclusive and empathetic educational place. Starting from the current crisis of the sense of community and from the community educational need present in contemporary society, the author reconstructs the community practices that, since ancient times, were realized through a dialectic between openness and closure, between community as a closed place of protection and as an open place of educational care. Today, in the era of sad passions and growing loneliness, it is desirable that places are animated by desire and not by need, becoming communities that reawaken joyful passions, where it is promoted an ethics of solidarity and responsibility aimed at a planetary community.