PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE AND APORIA IN PRISON

ФИЛОСОФСКАЯ ПРАКТИКА И АПОРИЯ В ТЮРЬМЕ

Tillmanns, Maria (Тиллманнс, Мария) () and Crespo, Wilfredo (Креспо, Вильфредо) ()
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Tillmanns, Maria (Тиллманнс, Мария): University of California
Crespo, Wilfredo (Креспо, Вильфредо): St. Timothy Episcopal Church

Sotsium i vlast / Society and power, 2019, 107-119

Abstract: In this paper we discuss how through our bi-weekly Socratic dialogue groups with inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown San Diego, we were able to bring the inmates to a sense of aporia or puzzlement. Not only did the dialogues help to uncover assumptions, uncovering the dots, so to speak, but also to help reconnect the dots and see their world from a different perspective. It allowed them to question their lives in a safe and non-judgmental environment. They felt empowered by these dialogues to become their own life’s judges, freeing themselves from feeling oppressed by the judgments of others.

Keywords: aporia; puzzlement; Socratic dialogue; working with inmates; fidelity; humor; philosophy with children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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