Talk with Your Kids : big ideas
Subtitle: conversations about democracy, infinity, environment, war and punishment, humanity and 77 other big ideas
By: Michael Parker
Series: Talk with your kids; Talk with your kids
Publisher: Jane Curry Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Edgecliff, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781922190895
Subjects: Philosophy; Study and teaching; Children; Attitudes; Moral education; Conduct of life; Parenting; Philosophie; Étude et enseignement; Enfants; Éducation morale; Morale pratique; Rôle parental
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Would you rather..?; title: 2. Are you in the middle of a dream?; title: 3. Simulated reality; title: 4. Acts and Intentions in crime; title: 5. Capitalism; title: 6. Should we get involved in deposing tyrants?; title: 7. Getting really old; title: 8. Do people start off good or bad?; title: 9. When is you not you?; title: 10. What is it like to be a bat?; title: 11. Should we own a pet?; title: 12. Curly paradoxes; title: 13. More curly paradoxes; title: 14. Loving your nation/country; title: 15. Owing guns; title: 16. But is it art?; title: 17. Human invention; title: 18. Our history; title: 19. Our human future; title: 20. Love; title: 21. Freedom of speech; title: 22. Clothing; title: 23. Marxism; title: 24. Free will; title: 25. Political parties; title: 26. Democracy; title: 27. Immortality (on earth); title: 28. How smart can kids be?; title: 29. Why read?; title: 30. What is life?; title: 31. Friendship; title: 32. Time paradoxes; title: 33. Do aliens exist?; title: 34. Imagine a world where ...; title: 35. Invention and discovery; title: 36. Science; title: good and bad paradigm shifts; title: 37. Design a different family; title: 38. Design your own school; title: 39. Punishing people; title: 40. In goal?; title: 41. Media; title: 42. The meaning of life; title: 43. More about dreams; title: 44. Dreams of power; title: 45. More when do you stop being you?; title: 46. Gaia; title: 47. Chaos (harder one); title: 48. Infinity and space; title: 49. Time (harder); title: 50. Circus act 1; title: The mind swap; title: 51. Circus act 2; title: The transporter; title: 52. Philosopher(s) 1 -Wise early men of Greece; title: 53. Philosopher 2; title: Plato; title: 54. Philosopher 3; title: Aristotle (on ideas); title: 55. Philosopher 3 continued; title: Artistotle (on happiness and virtue); title: 56. Philosopher 4; title: Descartes; title: 57. Philosopher 5; title: Locke; title: 58. Philosopher 6; title: Hume; title: 59. Philosopher 7; title: Kant; title: 60. Philosopher 8; title: Hegel; title: 61. Philosopher 9; title: Kierkegaard; title: 62. Trusting your senses; title: 63. Your own superpowers (be careful what you wish for); title: 64. All about thoughts(part one); title: 65. All about thoughts (part two); title: 66. Tax; title: 67. Charity; title: 68. Wisdom; title: 69. How smart is your pet?; title: 70. Do the right thing; title: 71. Dying; title: 72. What is real?; title: 73. World views; title: 74. Beauty; title: 75. Beautiful people; title: 76. Memories and forgetting; title: 77. Health care and health insurance; title: 78. Citizenship; title: 79. Luck; title: 80. The global village; title: 81. Elections and voting; title: 82. Eradicate it?; title: Some big thinkers and what they said.