Socrates' Ghost: Essential Tales for Young Philosophers
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2019
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Socrates’ Ghost: Essential Tales for Young Philosophers, is designed as an introduction to some of philosophy’s richest ideas, told through a set of fictionalized tales of some key philosophers in their youth. Within that creative retelling of philosophers’ youth, students will are exposed to some of the ideas that would later make that philosopher famous. The purpose of such a text is to introduce the ideas of each philosopher, in a more conversational and lived fashion, far more inviting than one would find in that thinker’s own mature writings. Having the youth of the philosopher portrayed allows students to see their own doubts, issues, thoughts, etc. as being not so different from that of a young philosopher. The hope is that such a reading experience can be a gateway for the student’s curiosity, to explore on their own the ideas both of the philosopher and of philosophy in general, as an ongoing source for reflection and inquiry, as a part of cultural heritage, or even as a career or calling.
Preface
PART 1: YOUNG EPICURUS AND THE SCHOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY IN ANCIENT ATHENS
Chapter 1 “Who Is Your Hero?”
Chapter 2 Dogs Know Best
Chapter 3 Doubting Is Good
Chapter 4 What Made You a Doubter?
Chapter 5 How Many Friends Do I Need?
Chapter 6 A Man Without a Hero
Chapter 7 Which Socrates Do You Want?
Chapter 8 How to Read a Book
Chapter 9 If I Were Invisible
Chapter 10 The Cave
Chapter 11 Why Not Ask the Oracle?
Chapter 12 Travel Is the Mark of Our People
Chapter 13 Feet Do a Lot of Work
Chapter 14 An Apology from Pyrrho
Chapter 15 Sting Ray
Chapter 16 Four Contestants for One Crown
Chapter 17 Epicurus’s Garden
Chapter 18 Zeno’s Cart
Chapter 19 Diogenes’s Lantern
Chapter 20 Adoxa’s Verdict
PART 2: PANOPTICON BOY—YOUNG JOHN STUART MILL
Chapter 1 Uncle Jeremy’s Invention
Chapter 2 Bentham, the “All-Seeing”
Chapter 3 “But I Can’t Even Tie My Tie!”
Chapter 4 A Panopticon for One
Chapter 5 Do Bad Things Always Have a Beginning, or Even a Name?
Chapter 6 Uncle Jeremy Isn’t Evil
Chapter 7 All Thumbs
Chapter 8 “If I Were to”
Chapter 9 Have You Even Been in a Panopticon?
Chapter 10 Jolly Lucky That Some of Us Don’t Think Much
Chapter 11 Thought Experiments Can Be Dangerous Too
Chapter 12 Aristotle Seems to Have Thought of EVERYTHING
Chapter 13 Glue Is Surprisingly Sticky
Chapter 14 A Carpenter’s Reply to Aristotle
Chapter 15 I Owe You Too Much to Say No
Chapter 16 The Vanity of Hope
Chapter 17 Panopticons Are Evil
Chapter 18 Think New Thoughts
PART 3: YOUNG FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: PEN PAL
Chapter 1 The Greatest Mind Since Newton
Chapter 2 Pen Pals Should Be Polite
Chapter 3 Riddles
Chapter 4 Snow and Presents!
Chapter 5 How Odd That We Care
Chapter 6 The Free Will Escape Attempt
Chapter 7 The Book Club
Chapter 8 Schopenhauer’s Bookmark
Chapter 9 Footnotes
Chapter 10 What Makes a Great Book
Chapter 11 Consulting With a Translator
Chapter 12 How to Write
Chapter 13 The Will to Truth
Chapter 14 A Christmas Poem
Chapter 15 After Christmas
Epilogue
Suggested Classroom Exercises