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- Title
REFRAMING AND PRACTICING COMMUNITY INCLUSION: THE RELEVANCE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN.
- Authors
Tibaldeo, Roberto Franzini
- Abstract
I wish to carry out a philosophical inquiry into contemporary intercultural public spheres. The thesis I will support is that the achievement of inclusive public spheres (namely, with respect to our European and Western experience, the accomplishment of democracy) largely depends on one's willingness and capacity to foster an "appreciation of diversities" by first, enhancing policies and forms of cooperation between the citizens' emotional and motivational resources, and then enhancing their cognitive competences. More specifically, my proposal is to understand such an effort from the viewpoint of post-Weberian responsibility, that is of an ethics and politics that overcome the traditional divisions between theory and practice, cognition and emotion, "Verantwortung" (responsibility) and "Gesinnung" (conviction), and therefore succeed in enhancing the citizens' awareness and attitudes as -- in Habermas' words -- "democratic co-legislators". Finally, a case study of Matthew Lipman's "Philosophy for Children/Community of Inquiry" succeeds precisely in embodying this cultural project.
- Subjects
CHILDREN &; philosophy; RELEVANCE (Philosophy); ETHICS
- Publication
Childhood & Philosophy, 2014, Vol 10, Issue 20, p401
- ISSN
2525-5061
- Publication type
Article