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Teaching Plato in Palestine : Philosophy in a Divided World

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Philosophy as a tool to tackle conflict.

"Teaching Plato in Palestine" is a must-read for anyone seeking to explore big questions of morality, religion, and philosophy in places fraught with conflict. Author Carlos Fraenkel takes the reader on a journey around the world to meet individuals from various cultural backgrounds who are grappling with questions like does God exist, is violence ever justified, and what is social justice? Through exploring differing viewpoints in a "culture of debate", Fraenkel shows how philosophy can serve as a useful tool to help individuals clarify and grapple with complex moral and philosophical issues.

  • QWF (Quebec Writer's Federation) Award for Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Teaching Plato in Palestine : Philosophy in a Divided World

Regular price ₱898.65
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ISBN: 9780691173368
Date of Publication: 2016-12-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Philosophy
Goodreads rating: 3.61
(rated by 89 readers)

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Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, lapsed Hasidic Jews in New York, teenagers from poor neighborhoods in Brazil, and the descendants of Iroquois warriors in Canada. They turn to Plato and Aristotle, al-Ghaz?l? and Maimonides, Spinoza and Nietzsche for help to tackle big questions: Does God exist? Is piety worth it? Can violence be justified? What is social justice and how can we get there? Who should rule? And how shall we deal with the legacy of colonialism? Fraenkel shows how useful the tools of philosophy can be--particularly in places fraught with conflict--to clarify such questions and explore answers to them. In the course of the discussions, different viewpoints often clash. That's a good thing, Fraenkel argues, as long as we turn our disagreements on moral, religious, and philosophical issues into what he calls a "culture of debate." Conceived as a joint search for the truth, a culture of debate gives us a chance to examine the beliefs and values we were brought up with and often take for granted. It won't lead to easy answers, Fraenkel admits, but debate, if philosophically nuanced, is more attractive than either forcing our views on others or becoming mired in multicultural complacency--and behaving as if differences didn't matter at all.
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Philosophy as a tool to tackle conflict.

"Teaching Plato in Palestine" is a must-read for anyone seeking to explore big questions of morality, religion, and philosophy in places fraught with conflict. Author Carlos Fraenkel takes the reader on a journey around the world to meet individuals from various cultural backgrounds who are grappling with questions like does God exist, is violence ever justified, and what is social justice? Through exploring differing viewpoints in a "culture of debate", Fraenkel shows how philosophy can serve as a useful tool to help individuals clarify and grapple with complex moral and philosophical issues.

  • QWF (Quebec Writer's Federation) Award for Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.