The kids are alright… or are they? On today's episode, Megan and Frank cover the following topics: is childhood a morally horrible stage of life? What does the "good life" look like for a kid? Should children get the right to vote for elected officials? Can young children understand philosophical questions and reasoning? And if so, should we be bringing philosophy to the youth? ----------------------- Hosts' Websites: Megan J Fritts (google.com) [https://sites.google.com/view/meganjfritts/home?authuser=0] Frank J. Cabrera - Research (google.com) [https://sites.google.com/view/frank-j-cabrera/research?pli=1] Email: [email protected] ----------------------- Bibliography: Paul, LA. - Transformative Experience - Oxford University Press (oup.com) [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transformative-experience-9780198717959?cc=us&lang=en&] Kazez, J. - Old Age as a Stage of Life - Journal of Applied Philosophy - Wiley Online Library [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/japp.12646] Ferracioli, L. - Carefreeness and Children's Wellbeing - Journal of Applied Philosophy - Wiley Online Library [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/japp.12382] Cicero — De Senectute [On Old Age] (uchicago.edu) [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cicero/cato_maior_de_senectute/text*.html] Mill, J.S. - On Liberty [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm#Page_103] (Ch. 3) Sandel, M. - the Case Against Perfection - The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/04/the-case-against-perfection/302927/] Big Ideas for Little Philosophers (penguinrandomhouse.com) [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/1BI/big-ideas-for-little-philosophers] Social Contract Theory | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [https://iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/#SSH4a.ii](Feminist Critique) Nussbaum, M. - Frontiers of Justice [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674024106&content=toc](Ch. 2, "Disabilities and the Social Contract) Rowlands, M. - Contractarianism and Animal Rights [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24354058] Wiland, E. - Should Children Have the Right to Vote?  [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93907-0_17] Brennan, J.  - Against Democracy | Princeton University Press [https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178493/against-democracy] Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics [http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.1.i.html](Bk. 1, Sect. 3) Philosophy for Children (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/children/] Do Kids Have a Fundamental Sense of Fairness? - Scientific American  [https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/do-kids-have-a-fundamental-sense-of-fairness/] Augustine - Confessions, (Bk. 1, Ch. 7) [https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/110101.htm] ----------------------- Cover Artwork by Logan Fritts ------------------------- Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/simon-folwar/neon-signs License code: LBJAOXPIK1VAALIR