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When, as a practical joke, the seven wicked sons of Wicked Jasper send a goody-goody robot named Lilly Rose Blossom to their virtuous cousin Prudence, daughter of their virtuous uncle Julian, she sends them a fiendishly insolent robot called the Nadger. Each household finds its robot so annoying that the cousins all run away from home and form a successful community together, eventually joined by a wiser Jasper and a chastened Julian. Though zany and wildly farcical, this story is also serious and thought-provoking – about the problem of minds and machines, the possibilities of free will, the nature of virtue and vice, and the purposes of education.

Publication Date

1982

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

education, free will, mind, personhood, robots, vice, virtue

Disciplines

Education | Philosophy

<em>Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles</em> (1981) by Margaret Mahy

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