{"id":4546,"date":"2008-05-12T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/why-are-we-here\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T19:50:00","slug":"why-are-we-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/why-are-we-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SI-QmxvRU2I\/AAAAAAAAADw\/0xod6uWiJA0\/s1600-h\/ist2_5853965-question-mark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228556688261469026\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SI-QmxvRU2I\/AAAAAAAAADw\/0xod6uWiJA0\/s320\/ist2_5853965-question-mark.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>At the end of our philosophy sessions together this year, I asked the 5th grade students with whom I&#8217;d been working what questions they&#8217;d like to keep talking about. I loved their questions. Here are some of them<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Why are we here?<\/div>\n<div>Why am I me? <\/div>\n<div>Why do we have philosophy?<\/div>\n<div>What is art?<\/div>\n<div>How do we know life isn&#8217;t just a dream?<\/div>\n<div>What are emotions?<\/div>\n<div>How do we know we have minds? <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Why do we ask questions?<\/div>\n<div>What is the imagination? Is the imagination memory?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What started everything? What is the beginning?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What is time?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How do we know other people see what we see and hear what we hear?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of our philosophy sessions together this year, I asked the 5th grade students with whom I&#8217;d been working what questions they&#8217;d like to keep talking about. I loved their questions. Here are some of them: Why are we here? Why am I me? Why do we have philosophy? What is art? 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