PhiloLessons

All teachers know that thinking is necessary, but few know how to encourage their students to think. The great philosophers were strategists in the art of making people think (teaching): Socrates asked questions, Plato dialogued, Kant provoked (dare to think), Adorno warned (so that the Barbarism of World War II would not be repeated). And today, with the seduction of the ’entertainment world’, what can philosophy teachers do to encourage students to think? This book was produced taking into account the assertion that philosophy is not learnt, but only the act of philosophising. It is divided into didactic units/chapters that seek to sensitise, contextualise, problematise and conceptualise the thinking of philosophers in order to attract the attention and minds of students. This book’s didactic proposal is well worth analysing and discussing.