Is Shame a Shame? This week, a session on shame developed for our online classes at www.p4he.org . It starts with the story of workers at a children’s home trying to introduce teenagers to the concept of shame by themselves acting ridiculously on public transport, allowing the youngsters to see in adults the norm-breaking behaviour they couldn’t see in themselves.  Shame is one of those philosophically interesting “good […]
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 A very successful session yesterday on The Ethics of Farting with 4S at Stivichall School, recently (the school featured in the Sticky Questions video). I was back to do some demos for staff who have joined since my last visit, and refresh how you can plan philosophical questions into your existing curriculum. The topic was “Burps,
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It’s World Philosophy Day on Thursday, so we’ve produced a video for use in assemblies about the new, virtual world of the “metaverse” – would it be good to spend much of your life in a limitless, digital world – or would there be things about the real world it would be a real shame
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