What does it mean to be good? Why do people die? What is friendship? Children enter the world full of questions and wrestle with deep, thoughtful issues, even if they do not always wonder them aloud. Many parents have the desire to discuss philosophical ideas with their children…
The Philosophical Child
What does it mean to be good? Why do people die? What is friendship? Children enter the world full of questions and wrestle with deep, thoughtful issues, even if they do not always wonder them aloud. Many parents have the desire to discuss philosophical ideas with their children…
What does it mean to be good? Why do people die? What is friendship? Children enter the world full of questions and wrestle with deep, thoughtful issues, even if they do not always wonder them aloud. Many parents have the desire to discuss philosophical ideas with their children…
Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian univer…
Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian univer…
« In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. For philosophers today to ignore this dimension of philosophy is not to ignore an accidental subset of the subject that can be divorced from its essential nature -…
"Siempre he considerado que la filosofía no debe ser algo intelectual, sino algo que sal ed nuestra sensibilidad", solía decir el gran escritor polaco Witold Gombrowicz, autor de novelas convertidas en mito como Ferdydurke, Pornografía o Cosmos, además de Transatlántico y Los po…
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE: WHY SLOW READING TODAY? -- Posing the question: what is it to read? -- About the chapters -- Introduction: On Being Slow and Doing Philosophy -- The love of wis…