Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2002

Publication Title

Knowledge Quest

First Page

26

Last Page

29

Keywords

teenagers

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Liberal Studies

Abstract

Part of a special section on connecting with adolescents. Although few adolescents are ever formally exposed to philosophy at middle or high school, almost all are philosophers in the sense that they ask and seek answers to questions that are fundamentally philosophical. Furthermore, studying philosophy can be quite useful for adolescents as it requires that they practice developing clear and coherent reasons for believing or doing something, provides the tools with which they can follow the logic of any ideological stance, and provides models of alternative answers and a way of examining how the historical period in which one lives affects the way one thinks about existence.

Comments

Copyright © 2002 American Library Association.

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