Childhood in Contemporary Philosophy, Olvin Toffler as a Model

Abstract

This study attempted to shed light on one of the most prominent philosophers of contemporary American history, Alvin Toffler, in his theories, and we revealed the dangerous meanings and implications these theories contain for the lives of contemporary and future peoples.

• There is an increasing sense of the rapidity of the stormy historical changes that the contemporary world is witnessing, and this is evident in the abundance of studies and continuous writings that attempt to describe the reality of the current historical scene.
• Alvin Toffler is the voice expressing the desire and will of the new American liberalism, which recognizes its historical crisis, but sees in this crisis nothing but the harbingers of the birth of a new civilization.
• Toffler tried to interpret history in a way that serves and justifies his hypothesis that he wishes to achieve, as he saw in all of human history only the flow of three basic waves of civilization, which are: the civilization of the agricultural wave, the civilization of the industrial wave, and the civilization of the cognitive wave, which is the civilization of the third wave.

Toffler brings back the conflicts and wars raging in our contemporary world today, to the crisis of the birth of third wave civilization and the desperate resistance it encounters from the remnants of the first and second waves.