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"Young children very often engage in reasoning that professional philosophers can recognize as philosophical..."

"... but typically their parents or teachers don?t react in a way that encourages them. They might say, 'That?s cute,' but they don?t engage the children in thinking further about whatever the issue is."

Did you ? do you/will you ? encourage philosophical thinking with your children? If not, why not? Presumably, philosophical thinking in children isn't encouraged because it's inconvenient for the parents. It's not just that the parents don't know how to keep up a philosophical dialogue with a child, but that conversations like that slow down the practical business of the day. And yet, what is life for if not to philosophize?

Full post as published by Althouse on April 18, 2010 (boomark / email).