Child at Heart (eBook)

Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life

Christopher Phillips (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
244 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-3557-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, A Child at Heart takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks of old call areteall-around excellencewhen we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development.Childhood is our primary launching pad, a time of life when learning is more intense than at any other, when we gain the critical knowledge and skills that can help ensure that we remain adaptable. This book weaves together the thinking of philosophers from across the ages who make the unsettling assertion that with the passage of time we are apt to shrink mentally, emotionally, and cognitively. If we follow what has become an all-too-common course, we denature our original naturewhich brims with curiosity, empathy, reason, wonder, and a will to experiment and understandand we regress, our sense of who we are will become fuzzier and everyone in our orbit will pay a price.Mounting evidence shows that we begin our lives with a moral, intellectual, and creative bang, and in this groundbreaking, heavily researched, and highly engaging volume, Christopher Phillips makes the provocative case that childhood isn't merely a state of becoming, while adulthood is one of being, as if we've "e;arrived"e; and reached the summit. His life-changing proposition is that if we embrace the defining qualities of youth, we're not destined to become frail, dispirited, or unhinged, we'll grow in a way defined by wonder, curiosity, imaginativeness, playfulness, and compassionin essence, unlimited potential.

Autor

Christopher Phillips, PhD, is the bestselling author of Socrates Café. He was an ethics network fellow at Harvard University, a senior writing fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a senior education fellow at the National Constitution Center, and a recipient of the Distinguished American Leader award. His writing and activism inspired the Socrates Café and Democracy Café gatherings—meet-ups in which people of all ages exchange ideas and philosophies while embracing the Socratic Method—and today there are more than six hundred ongoing gatherings around the world. Visit his websites at ChristopherPhillips.com and DemocracyCafe.org.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: accessible philosophy • ageless • Alice in Wonderland • ARETE • become smarter • Charles Taylor • Childhood • child philosophy • children playfulness • Cornel West • creative growth • critical knowledge • Curiosity • Eastern philosophy • Emerson • emotional growth • Empathy • epicurus • Greek Philosophy • Happiness • how to be more creative • Identity • Imagination • imaginativeness • improve creativity • Inquiry • John Stuart Mill • Kant • learning from children • lipman • mind improvement • openness • original play • Philosophers • philosophy advice • Play • Playfulness • Potential • practical philosophy • psychological growth • reflection • self-help philosophy • sense of self • simone de beauvoirjeremy bentham • socrates cafe • teaching of socrates • Tolstoy • Western Philosophy • wisdom • wonder • Wordsworth
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-3557-7 / 1510735577
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-3557-6 / 9781510735576