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Plato, Kant, Locke, and six-year-olds?

That is who University of Michigan philosophy professor Scott Hershowitz would put in the pantheon

of the greatest philosophers we've got.

In his new book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Hershavitt says that children are naturally

creative and abstract thinkers, unafraid to ask hard questions about ethics, free will, death,

and many of the mysteries of human existence that adults have long stopped worrying about.

We're going to talk about why we should listen closely to the young philosophers in our lives and learn to encourage them.

Join us.

This is Forum. I'm Risa Lagos and from Mina Kim. Mommy, I don't know what red looks like to you.

That is the first philosophical puzzle that Scott Hershowitz says he remembers putting to his befuddled parents.

And it's children's observations like those that Hershowitz, now a full-grown philosophy professor,

say that parents need to nurture and take seriously. Scott Herschvist joins us this hour to talk about how to do that. He's a professor of law and a professor of philosophy at the University

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