Corrupting Youth

Peter Worley is the co-CEO and co-founder of the registered charity The Philosophy Foundation. He is also a Visiting Research Associate at King’s College London and an author of many books on doing philosophy in schools and questioning in classrooms.

• Foreword PrefaceA little backgroundAcknowledgementsIntroduction to PhiEPart One: Philosophy and dialecticWhat is philosophy?Philosophy as conversationThe 4 ‘R’sLogos and fluxAmbivalence: Two-eyed thinkingThe reason for reason in philosophyPhilo-Sophia and the love of learningAnd to the children?A word about right and wrong answers in philosophyDialecticThe origins of dialecticHeraclitusThe dialectical effect: thinking flows like a riverSocratesPlatoAspects of Platonic dialecticCorrespondence to PhiETwo dialectics in Plato’s ParmenidesAristotleAristotle and PhiECommunity of EnquiryPart Two: Core values of PhiEAncient core values of PhiEExploration and discovery DissentAutonomyInquiry/EnquiryAn open, questioning mind-setFriendshipFriendship: xenia and knowing thyselfExcellenceExcellence and competition: the paradox of SocratesOracyOracy: Aoidos Oracy: small ‘d’ and big ‘D’ dialecticsPart Three: pedagogical principles of PhiEA sensitive methodA descriptive approachPhilosophical maturity: was Plato wrong?CapabilityInterest and engagementThe need for conditionsThe conditionsIdeal speech situationsClassroom culturePhiE begins with intuitionsWithin and without: is PhiE democratic?Truth and knowledgeOwnershipTwo keystone principles in PhiE: Absence and Open Questioning MindsetAbsence and PresenceSocrates’ midwifery principleFrom withinOpen Questioning Mindset Guess what’s in my headProblematisationBlocking‘Guess what’s in your head’ and intentional sensitivityTwo aims of PhiE: dialectic and inclusionSocratic irony and questioning mindsetsIn summaryBibliography About the author