Couverture / Jaquette

If a machine could make you happy forever, should you press the button?
What makes something truly yours?
Can breaking a rule ever be the right thing to do?
If everything about you changes over time, are you still the same person?

Tonight's Dinner Dilemma brings 115 of philosophy's greatest questions to your family's dinner table, accessible for children aged 7 to 14 and the adults who love them.
Pick one dilemma tonight, at breakfast, or on a long car journey. Read it out loud. See what happens. No answer is wrong, but every thought is worth exploring.

115 dilemmas across 22 chapters:
Who Am I? ·
Right & Wrong ·
Fairness ·
Friendship ·
Animals & Nature ·
Happiness ·
Knowledge & Truth ·
Freedom & Control ·
Punishment ·
Helping ·
Ownership ·
Time ·
Wealth ·
Competition ·
Environment ·
Technology ·
Promises ·
Authority ·
Courage ·
Differences ·
Death & Mortality ·
Critical Thinking

The families who remember to ask big questions together raise children who think for themselves. That's the whole idea.

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If a machine could make you happy forever, should you press the button?
What makes something truly yours?
Can breaking a rule ever be the right thing to do?
If everything about you changes over time, are you still the same person?

Tonight's Dinner Dilemma brings 115 of philosophy's greatest questions to your family's dinner table, accessible for children aged 7 to 14 and the adults who love them.
Pick one dilemma tonight, at breakfast, or on a long car journey. Read it out loud. See what happens. No answer is wrong, but every thought is worth exploring.

115 dilemmas across 22 chapters:
Who Am I? ·
Right & Wrong ·
Fairness ·
Friendship ·
Animals & Nature ·
Happiness ·
Knowledge & Truth ·
Freedom & Control ·
Punishment ·
Helping ·
Ownership ·
Time ·
Wealth ·
Competition ·
Environment ·
Technology ·
Promises ·
Authority ·
Courage ·
Differences ·
Death & Mortality ·
Critical Thinking

The families who remember to ask big questions together raise children who think for themselves. That's the whole idea.

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