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Daily Dad and Agnes Callard on Teaching Children Philosophy

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Relationships, Education, Dads, Parenting, Ryan Holiday, Fatherhood, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Wisdom, Kids & Family

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode Ryan speaks to professor and author Agnes Callard about pulling children towards philosophy, how to popularize philosophy in your own household, and how to set the stakes higher when teaching your kids. 

Agnes Callard is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago (ancient philosophy and ethics). She wrote Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming and wrote the lead essay in On Anger, one of the New Yorker’s top books of 2020. 

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Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast. During the week, we bring you a daily meditation of the best parenting wisdom you can find drawing on history and philosophy and psychology and literature to inspire you to be a little bit better at the most important job you

0:21.9

have. And then on the weekends, I have sort of a wrap-up conversation with my friend, fellow

0:26.9

dad, and writing partner, Nealz Parker. We just explore what's going on in our lives, what we're

0:31.8

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Hey, everyone, as you know, I'm a bit of philosophy nerd. That's what I write about. That's what

1:48.6

gets me excited. So how do you teach your kids about this? Obviously, that's something I think

1:54.8

about a lot. It's also something I've been asked a lot about even well before I had kids.

1:59.8

I've never really had a great answer, so it's a question

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