Publisher's Synopsis
This book attempts to bring the reader closer to great philosophical concepts presented as binomials that, in their great majority, are shown to be opposites: judgment-prejudice, freedom-security, order-chaos, virtue-vice, responsibility-victimhood, happiness-pleasure, merit-luck, reality-imagination, ignorance-lucidity, simple-complex and dogma-knowledge.
To do this, a series of everyday stories are narrated, in the form of short tales, which capture the idiosyncrasy of these concepts. After each story, a direct and concise analysis is made of what philosophy says about the relationship between concepts, making reference to great philosophers, as well as to the main currents of thought in the History of Philosophy. Anyone who wishes to approach philosophy and, specifically, these great philosophical concepts has a unique opportunity to learn and reflect in a practical and close way through immersion in simple stories that will allow them to transform everyday experiences into basic and fundamental knowledge for life. The titles of the stories collected in this book are:- The new classmate (judgment-prejudice)
- The Park of Rules and Wings (freedom-security)
- A very special day at school (order-chaos)
- An unbeatable team (virtue-vice)
- The competition of creative projects (responsibility-victimhood)
- The wheel of happiness (happiness-pleasure)
- The drawing contest (merit-luck)
- The imaginary house (reality-imagination)
- In search of answers (ignorance-lucidity)
- The garden of questions (simple-complex)
- Questioning reality (dogma-knowledge)
The recipients of this work range from children (from 10 years old) and young people to those interested in delving into the knowledge of fundamental concepts of philosophy. It is for this reason that it has been decided to contextualize these stories in situations close to the younger public.
