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Derived from Greek Epicureanism, Lucretius's work challenges ancient mythology in favor of virtuous materialism. Through a combination of rich poetry and thoughtful analysis, Lucretius tackles such subjects as happiness, the soul, fear of death and the gods, and the material world.
On the Nature of Things
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Question Mark introduces young children to the three central philosophical skills of questioning, doubting, and being certain. The focus is on asking questions: about who we are, about reality, and about certainty. In the story, Mark helps a shadow-rabbit escape from a dog named Dogma, who is trying to eliminate uncertainty once and for all, but this leads to the fundamental question: Can we know anything for certain?4 Grades
Question Mark – Student Book (Perfect Bound)
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The Question Mark teacher manual, for parents and teachers both, is the instructor’s guide to implementing the student book. It provides a summary of the plot developments for each chapter, a philosophical basis for the key concepts of the chapters, discussion questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, and suggestions for activities.4 Grades
Question Mark – Teacher Manual
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Question Mark is less of a textbook and more of a picture book, with mind-opening ideas and activities conveyed through words and images working together. The fifteen chapters fall into three parts, corresponding to the three central philosophical skills we want children to develop: questioning, doubting, and being certain. These are fundamental skills that have inspired great thinkers throughout the history of civilization to build and transform the intellectual world.5 Grades
Question Mark: Student Book
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SaleThere are three works that are at the source of Western culture: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. After you have completed your study of Homer’s two works, Virgil’s epic story of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, is your next logical Great Book to study. Now your students can get the background they need to understand the Aeneid with our instructional DVDs, featuring Elizabeth Pierce, one of Highlands Latin School’s master teachers. Mrs. Pierce’s compelling lectures will give your students a better understanding of the background and culture of the time period, as well as the themes inherent in this great epic.3 Grades
The Aeneid – Instructional Videos (DVDs or Online Streaming)
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The Categorical Imperative guidebook, for both instructors and the students themselves, explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel. These include the beliefs and ideas of Socrates, Mill, Kant, Rousseau, Hume, John Milton, Shakespeare, Newton, Einstein, Alan Turing, and others. It also provides a summary of the plot developments, a philosophical basis for the key concepts of each chapter, discussion questions, and more.4 Grades
The Categorical Imperative – Guidebook
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In this novel, three middle schoolers enter virtual reality to track down Rousseau, Hume, and Kant in order to battle skepticism. Rousseau’s concept of autonomy shows that humans should obey only their own laws. But can autonomy provide a new foundation for both science and morality, as Kant insists? The youngsters discover what it means to obey your own laws and discover that reality is more amazing than they ever dreamed.4 Grades
The Categorical Imperative – Student Book
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The Divided Line guidebook, for both instructors and the students themselves, explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel. These include the beliefs and ideas of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Freud, Jung, Schopenhauer, and others. It also provides a summary of the plot developments, a philosophical basis for the key concepts of each chapter, discussion questions, and more.4 Grades
The Divided Line – Guidebook
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In this novel, centered on Plato’s famous “Analogy of the Divided Line,” a group of middle schoolers enter famous paintings, where they meet Socrates, Plato, and Descartes. Socrates divides a line into sections in order to show how the human mind progresses, but is the goal of this progression certainty, as Descartes argues? The youngsters discover a fatal flaw in Descartes’s logic and find the goal of the Divided Line hidden in a Grecian urn instead.4 Grades
The Divided Line – Student Book
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The Inverted Spectrum guidebook, for both instructors and the students themselves, explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel. These include the beliefs and ideas of Socrates, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Mill, Adler, Dewey, and others. It also provides a summary of the plot developments, a philosophical basis for the key concepts of each chapter, discussion questions, and more.4 Grades
The Inverted Spectrum – Guidebook
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In this novel, centered on John Locke’s famous thought experiment about a man who suddenly perceives colors the opposite of how he used to see them, two middle schoolers enter virtual reality to solve Locke’s mysterious disappearance in order to save one of their classmates from a thought experiment gone awry. In the process, they learn about empiricism and its connection to the birth of democracy.4 Grades
The Inverted Spectrum – Student Book
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SaleAeschylus was the first of the three great tragic playwrights. The Oresteia is the exciting trilogy about the end of the curse of the House of Atreus. Join Orestes as he seeks to revenge his father’s murder, but discovers, along with us, that revenge only begets revenge – that mercy and litigation are the better ends of justice.
The Oresteian Trilogy Set
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The Student Guide provides questions corresponding with the text and also provides an in-depth study that will aid the student in gaining a better understanding of classical studies.2 Grades
The Republic and The Laws – Student Guide
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The Squirrel Behind the Tree guidebook, for both instructors and the students themselves, explores the philosophical bases behind the concepts introduced in the novel and includes excerpts of works by Huxley, Adler, James, Peirce, Dewey, and others who were central to the movement known as Pragmatism and who influenced Dewey’s views of religion, democracy, and education. It also provides in-depth discussion questions about both the readings and the novel.3 Grades
The Squirrel Behind the Tree – Guidebook
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