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101. Questions: Philosophy for Young People: Volume > 6
John Cleary Poetry and Access to Knowledge (I)
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Cleary experiments with a “community of inquiry” to his high school Intro-level Philosophy course to express an alternative method for ethics through various poems and writing exercises such as “War and a Soldier” by Edgar Jablons, “Murder” by Paul Silverman, and “The Beaten Path” by Sylvia Schneider.
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Tommy Miller Monkeys Need Time: A Dialogue (I)
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Miller finds a seven-year-old's perspective on the definition of time.
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John Cleary Poetry and Access to Knowledge (II)
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Graham Godwyn Plato’s Republic
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High School student Godwyn argues the certainty and significance behind the utopian society, that is, Plato’s Republic. He emphasizes the politically incorrect standards of the Republic to the modern era, while examining the vision of what Plato intended.
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Announcement: Kids Philosophy Slam Competition
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Obituary for Ken Knisely
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Nathan Brubaker Wouldn’t All of Us Be Dimwitted if We Didn’t Go to Class?
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A discussion conducted by Brubacher to see the fifth grade perspective on lacking accountability in an educational setting, along with a common link to philosophical grounds.
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Tommy Miller Monkeys Need Time: A Dialogue (II)
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Announcement: Kids Philosophy Slam Competition
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Drawings, essays, and poems by children grades kindergarten through seven on the question: “Compassion or Violence: Which has a greater impact on society?”
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Steve Wood The High School Philosophy Seminar and Philosophical Positivism (I)
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Description of the High School Philosophy Seminar, a philosophy outreach program run by undergraduate philosophy students at The George Washington University.
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Cho-Kiu Lam Philosophy Files
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Elizabeth Mauritz Humphrey Books
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Call for Submissions
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About the Contributors
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Steve Wood The High School Philosophy Seminar (II)
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John Zillmer Acting Out: Dramatizing ‘Jim and the Indians’
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Zillmer shows the benefits of having children act out situations as a way of sparking discussions with 7th and 8th graders in a philosophy class. He writes about an example from his class called "Jim and the Indians."
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Rory E. Kraft, Jr. Does Virtue Require an Audience?: Recasting Plato’s “Ring of Gyges” for Different Ages
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The classic examples and stories that we use for college students can be used as the basis for classroom discussions at pre-college students' levels. This means occasionally simplifying a story, but with only slight effort the same sorts of questions can be used across all ages to get at the same underlying concerns.
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Ben Thompson Coping Without Free Will: An Examination into the Effects on a Belief System of the Rejection of Free Will
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Argues that acceptance of one’s place in the natural world involves an acceptance of free will. Free will is also necessary for the continuation of a social society in that we need to accept the doctrine in order to administer justice.
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Kids Philosopy Slam
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Elizabeth Gyori Philosophy as a Threat to Government
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Examination of the subversive nature of philosophy as its students challenge the authority and practices of government agencies and organizations. Draws a series of connections between philosophically oriented protesters and questioners of authority ranging from Socrates to 2004 protesters at the U.S. Republican party’s presidential convention in 2004.