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Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
Maybe someday
45
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
75/100Critics
15/100Scholars
Author:
Scott Hershovitz
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Date:
May 3, 2022
From a University of Michigan professor of law and philosophy, an inquiry into lifeâs biggest questions with the help of first-rate philosophersâincluding his two young children.
What The Reviewers Say
[Hershovitz] seems to me needlessly insulting to his children.
You’ll certainly learn much, or be reminded of much.
Ultimately, Hershovitz's approach, in betting on his children's endless capacity to ask trenchant questions, has a bittersweet aspect — it's at once like faith and doubt. Rex and Hank's childhood years are finite. The portal to their seemingly infinite aptitude for wonder may close once they reach adulthood. Nevertheless, Hershovitz reminds parents to embrace our children's 'strangeness' as long as we can, and maybe in the process find our way back to the questing child-philosopher within us..
Hershovitz’s book helps place this normal part of the developmental process in a philosophical context, highlighting the ways your kids’ sometimes awesome and sometimes annoying questions make them tiny versions of Socrates and Sartre.
