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Sharing Philosophy with Kids
by Marietta McCarty
Cyrus, a 5-year-old child philosopher, explains to Marietta the essence of happiness
through his abstract drawing at the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Introduction

1    Philosophy
Plato

2    Friendship
bell hooks
Karl Jaspers

3    Responsibility
Albert Camus
Rita Manning

4    Happiness
Charlotte Joko Beck
Epicurus

5    Justice
Paulo Freire
Immanuel Kant

6    Time
Augustine
Alan Watts

7    Courage
Epictetus
Mary Wollstonecraft

8    Death
Shunryu Suzuki
The Bhagavad-Gita

9    Prejudice
Gloria Anzaldúa
Jean-Paul Sartre

10   God
Al-Ghazali
Thomas Aquinas

11   Humanity
Sören Kierkegaard
Elizabeth Spelman

12   Nature
Baruch Spinoza
Lao Tzu

13   Compassion
Jane Addams
Dalai Lama

14   Freedom
Simone de Beauvoir
John Stuart Mill

15   Love
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bertrand Russell