Between ontology and politics, caring thinking in the work of Ann Margaret Sharp
The pedagogical current of Philosophy for Children as it has been developed since the 1970s aims at instituting a philosophical education of children 4 to 17 years of age with a view to developing the faculty of thought within a space of political dialogue. To this end, Ann Margaret Sharp has forged the concept of caring thinking as an ontological dimension of human thought animated by a political concern for the Good, for Others and for the World. This article sets forth an analysis of Sharp’s work on this notion (between the 1980s and 2009) in order to examine the link between caring thinking and the ethics of care, and to shed light on the resonances and discordances existing between these two currents of thought.