An edition of Talk with Your Kids : big ideas (2014)

Talk with Your Kids : big ideas

conversations about democracy, infinity, environment, war and punishment, humanity and 77 other big ideas

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An edition of Talk with Your Kids : big ideas (2014)

Talk with Your Kids : big ideas

conversations about democracy, infinity, environment, war and punishment, humanity and 77 other big ideas

A collection of philosophical questions and situations to pose to your children, in order to start discussions on topics such as democracy, infinity, environment, war and punishment, and humanity. Designed to encourage critical thinking on subjects which may otherwise be awkward to introduce.

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English
Pages
264

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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Would you rather..?
2. Are you in the middle of a dream?
3. Simulated reality
4. Acts and Intentions in crime
5. Capitalism
6. Should we get involved in deposing tyrants?
7. Getting really old
8. Do people start off good or bad?
9. When is you not you?
10. What is it like to be a bat?
11. Should we own a pet?
12. Curly paradoxes
13. More curly paradoxes
14. Loving your nation/country
15. Owing guns
16. But is it art?
17. Human invention
18. Our history
19. Our human future
20. Love
21. Freedom of speech
22. Clothing
23. Marxism
24. Free will
25. Political parties
26. Democracy
27. Immortality (on earth)
28. How smart can kids be?
29. Why read?
30. What is life?
31. Friendship
32. Time paradoxes
33. Do aliens exist?
34. Imagine a world where ...
35. Invention and discovery
36. Science
good and bad paradigm shifts
37. Design a different family
38. Design your own school
39. Punishing people
40. In goal?
41. Media
42. The meaning of life
43. More about dreams
44. Dreams of power
45. More when do you stop being you?
46. Gaia
47. Chaos (harder one)
48. Infinity and space
49. Time (harder)
50. Circus act 1
The mind swap
51. Circus act 2
The transporter
52. Philosopher(s) 1 -Wise early men of Greece
53. Philosopher 2
Plato
54. Philosopher 3
Aristotle (on ideas)
55. Philosopher 3 continued
Artistotle (on happiness and virtue)
56. Philosopher 4
Descartes
57. Philosopher 5
Locke
58. Philosopher 6
Hume
59. Philosopher 7
Kant
60. Philosopher 8
Hegel
61. Philosopher 9
Kierkegaard
62. Trusting your senses
63. Your own superpowers (be careful what you wish for)
64. All about thoughts(part one)
65. All about thoughts (part two)
66. Tax
67. Charity
68. Wisdom
69. How smart is your pet?
70. Do the right thing
71. Dying
72. What is real?
73. World views
74. Beauty
75. Beautiful people
76. Memories and forgetting
77. Health care and health insurance
78. Citizenship
79. Luck
80. The global village
81. Elections and voting
82. Eradicate it?
Some big thinkers and what they said.

Edition Notes

Published in
Edgecliff, NSW
Series
Talk with your kids, Talk with your kids

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
649.7
Library of Congress
BJ1631

The Physical Object

Pagination
264 pages
Number of pages
264

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL39213137M
ISBN 10
1922190896
ISBN 13
9781922190895
OCLC/WorldCat
880125823

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL28599138W

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