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Eleven-year-old Nora K. received Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World as a birthday present, and in it she read about Plato's theory of ideas. One problem especially intrigued her: What about the platonic idea of the dinosaur? Ideas are timeless and cannot die. The dinosaurs, however, became extinct ages ago. Does the idea of the dinosaur still exist all the same? Could it even be that the material world is a dream and time an illusion? Moreover, is there such a thing as free will, or is everything predetermined? Is the soul eternal? Do animals have a consciousness? Is the universe infinite? Is there such a thing as objective truth? Does God exist, and why is there evil in the world?
These are some of Nora's questions which prompted her correspondence with Vittorio Hosle, a philosopher by profession, who invents a wonderful philosophical fantasy. Taking the film The Dead Poet's Society as his inspiration, he creates a place where the great philosophers of antiquity and their modern successors can all meet. They gather in the "Cafe of the Dead but Ever Young Philosophers" and discuss Nora's letters -- Parmenides and Socrates, Descartes and Hobbes (whom Nora doesn't like at all), 'Mac' (Machiavelli) and Kant, Nora's "patron philosopher" Giambattista Vico and Hans Jonas, and many others. The sparks fly from time to time, as the great thinkers squabble quite frequently -- no wonder, since conflicting arguments from the entire history of philosophy collide with each other head-on.
Nora's letters are intelligent, never precocious, and always imaginative. Vittorio Hosle provides answers which are entertaining but still critical, and he is clearly concerned about not setting his expectations ofthe child ton low. In his afterword on children's philosophy and philosophy with children, he sketches what role philosophy could play in raising children. The correspondence with Nora, an authentic exchange of letters between January 1994 and January 1996, is a lovely document of a philosophical friendship between an adult and a child.
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Condition: Very Good. : Este libro presenta una correspondencia real y fascinante entre Nora K., una niña de once años, y el filósofo Vittorio Hösle. Todo comienza cuando Nora, tras leer 'El mundo de Sofía', plantea preguntas profundas sobre la existencia de las ideas, el destino de los dinosaurios y la naturaleza de Dios. Para responderle, Hösle imagina un lugar fantástico inspirado en 'El club de los poetas muertos': el Café de los Filósofos Muertos pero Siempre Jóvenes.En este espacio imaginario, grandes pensadores como Sócrates, Descartes, Kant y Maquiavelo debaten las inquietudes de Nora, creando un puente entre la curiosidad infantil y la historia de la filosofía. Es una obra entretenida y crítica que demuestra cómo la filosofía puede ser una herramienta vital en la educación y el crecimiento personal, documentando una amistad intelectual única entre un adulto y una niña. EAN: 9789727590797 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Filosofía|Literatura y Ficción Título: O Café dos Filósofos Mortos Autor: Nora K.| Vittorio Hösle Editorial: Temas e Debates Idioma: pt Páginas: 232 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-09-09-e833f5d8