UNESCO has established, since 2002, as the third Thursday in November to celebrate PHILOSOPHY- The best school of thought and freedom of human!
That's why the pleasure to chat with our twins was increase, especially because it was a special day, Philosophy Day. Celebrated since 21 November 2002, as the intellectual and ethical arm of the United Nations, function without promoting philosophical reflection as the basis for democracy, human rights and a right society.
Philosophy, as the term signifies, is the love of wisdom. Regardless of its specific termi
nology in various cultures all over the world, tetsugaku in Japanese, indicating the discipline of wisdom, or in Arabic, falsafa, meaning science of wisdom, this act of thinking about thinking turns by definition around the fundamental concepts and ideas that lie at the heart of existence, both individual and collective. It is this act of philosophizing that is the lifeblood of philosophy. And it is precisely this act of reflection, of analysis, of questioning – whether of concepts that are taken for granted, ideas dulled by time, or long-established paradigms.
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More than any of our previous attempts in etwinning, this project emphasises that by twinning with a European school,not only do we learn about a foreign culture, but we are given the precious gift of re-discovering our own, especially since it is one of the founding stones of European culture. Let's read Plato's Phedros after Xmas, as you suggested, Carmen. The Greek team is willing...
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