Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Philosophy Wire: Children and social interaction. Being still a child. Refusing to accept it.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-08-30]: While sharing toys and fighting with each other, kindergarten children helped researchers understand the patterns and qualities of interactions in social groups. The results were much more complex than the scientists originally predicted. [1] How arrogant we are. We believe we are all too grown up. We believe we are too different from children. But every one of us was a child once. And is carrying what he thought and learnt when he was still laughing and crying in his mother’s lap. Every one of us is still a child. Refusing to accept that he is. We are not complex. We were complex as children. See the cosmos selfishly and you will see how you have not grown at all. You are the same stubborn child you once were…

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