Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Journal / Book Title
Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children
Abstract
In this article, Guin responds to Walter Omar Kohan’s Presidential Address at the Tenth Conference of the International Council of Philosophy with Children, “Education, Philosophy, and Childhood: The Need to Think an Encounter” (published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 16(1): 4-11, attached here), in which Kohan argues that “philosophy for children is not as transformative, as revolutionary, as radical, as it is needs to be in order to make any difference in these neo-capitalistic, global times.” Guin argues, contrarily, that the education in tools of inquiry, social solidarity, and interdependent thinking provided by philosophy for children is precisely what is needed by children in the process of being introduced to the political and social dimensions of their world, and to their role as “citizens prepared to join in conjoint efforts to address society's distresses and disequilibriums, while critically sustaining political stability.” Kohan responded to Guin in his article “Is it Possible to Think? A Response to Phillip Guin” (Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 17(3): 47-50, also attached here).
Book Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
0190-333
Book Editor(s)
David Kennedy
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Guin, Philip C., "(2004) The Political and Social Ends of Philosophy" (2004). Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin. 10.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/pguin/10
Published Citation
Guin, Phillip C. (2004) The Political and Social Ends of Philosophy. Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 17(3): 41-46. URL = https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/thinking_journal_philosophy_children/42/.