 Alright so this morning in our philosophy lesson we're going to just talk a bit about what philosophy is before we get started and then we're going to get into looking at some questions for philosophy on the question quadrant which we'll build, making some philosophical questions, sequencing them to make a discussion plan and then starting the discussion and having some reflection. So that's what we're hoping to get through today. So first we're just going to have a little bit of a discussion about what philosophy is when you're passing the ball we need to be careful don't we. So the first thing I want you to talk about is what do you, what do you, when we say we do philosophy what do we actually mean by that, what do we mean when we say we do philosophy? When we do philosophy we say we come together in a community and discuss issues, topics and sometimes things of books and politics and arrange of different things. Okay, anybody else want to add to that? What do we say when we, what do we mean when we say we do philosophy? When we do philosophy it's like we come together then look for the, we have a topic then it starts like describe that topic and find out more about it to build something and find one decision that can help. Well philosophy is when it's when we come together as a community and like we're given maybe a theme or a topic or all those things that I have to say and we work towards finding an answer and yes sometimes we don't find an answer and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we don't find an answer. When we do often not everyone agrees on it. That's it. And that's okay. We also agree and disagree on things which help us see people's perspective of things and for example if I agree with something and if I see Hector disagreeing with it then then I can understand how Hector sees the situation of things about the topic and like I can get new ideas. And if the people are frowning beta it's alright isn't it? This means they're thinking what have you learnt through doing philosophy that's helped you in other areas of your learning in school? Us we learnt like for questions you learnt the problem solve as Harry said earlier. It can also help you just physically build your brain and mentally build your brain to make it stronger and all the neural pathways like bridges in your brain like a comprehension test and you have to think of the answer well it can help you think outside of the box and sort of challenge what you would think it would be. Challenge your first answer to think a second time think a bit deeper yeah. Philosophy can help a lot in life. When you think you have only one option and then you think about like philosophy like there's all these other way like in philosophy like you argue your one point and then with other people saying like you can learn and then in life later like you know you have other choices. It helps you to see different choices. Building on what beta previously said just said what Mia said and what Finn said I'd like to kind of tie it together and say what it helps us see different perspectives it can help us see different ways in maths so we can look at it differently and it helps us in life but I think it also can help us understand world events and history okay. It's not easy for us to understand how slaves felt in the 16th century but using our philosophical brains and minds we can actually look back and and try and get kind of a glimpse through their perspective and kind of you know kind of start to feel how they felt back then so we can kind of build on that and enrich our lives and so we're not just focusing on ourselves but we know how everyone else is. Try to think about it do you know what that's called perspectives yeah taking different perspectives and that feeling how other people felt building empathy. I think that philosophy isn't always about logically thinking it's more about thinking about what it means to like be human or something it's not like what being human is it's like what it means to be human so again like it's looking at a question from a different perspective and to get a new answer. Yes it's not just about like remember yesterday afternoon and Justin was talking about the maze and the tree you built on it later on he started off with the maze and the tree and then you built on that metaphor so it's about thinking creatively and thinking laterally as well not just logically not just in a linear way. Thinking on Willow's idea it can do the thing where you have all these questions and you've got so many answers for it and it can be it can be like a triangle so you have all these questions down the bottom and then you narrow that down to only the ones that make sense and that help you and then you take the answers off them and pull them together to make one big answer that can answer your question. Okay before we go on can you think about a way that it helps all of us think together in a group. Make us see sense as in some people have already said that like say someone's got an idea you can it's through philosophy you can understand it better you can like know how like know more of what they're saying then. Why is that Finn what does philosophy do for you or what does it help you learn to do? It doesn't just help you with your thinking it helps you to meet other people's thinking how to almost like understand exactly what they're saying. Can someone expand on what Finn's saying and think about how does that actually happen what do we do in philosophy that helps you to think more deeply about what other people are saying. Yeah well we build on each other's ideas so yeah if we do that then we can all come to like a conclusion which then well it helps you a bit more. Okay what about somebody who hasn't had a say is there something we do in philosophy that helps us build on each other's ideas? I think agreeing and disagreeing because if you understand what someone is saying to disagree it shows that you know what they're saying and you're challenging what they're saying so that it gets a deeper conversation and then you might disagree someone might agree with you but then someone else might disagree with you and if it bounces back on agreeing and disagreeing I think it makes a deeper conversation and then that could maybe help you find an answer or something close to it. It helps everyone to be less stubborn. Even me? How do you know that Katelyn? Because you're open to other perspectives and you can see what they're thinking as well as you. Yeah so you're not a stubborn in your thinking. If you're not a stubborn in your thinking what are you? What sort of thinking are you doing? It's like a growth mindset. It's like a growth mindset yeah. Philosophy is not just a discussion with people just sitting like this then we start discussing. Philosophy is like your brain. You can stand there and think even yeah children prep they think fast if I do this how is the teacher going to fail? So that is philosophy is how you discuss in yourself and think what is good thing or good way and so philosophy is not just discussion it's your brain how you think and how you open your mind to think. Is there anything about the whole school it's held with? Can anyone talk about that? Maybe somebody who's been to a different school and has a comparison. Well in other schools they don't like when we talk about philosophy we understand most of the schools don't have this and in other schools they just don't understand. Like in here we talk about other cultures other religions and in other schools they don't understand that so they think just because they came from another country that I'm bad and I do bad things. But in this school because of philosophy everyone understands more. You can talk to people and they can understand it's like easier to communicate with people. The rules of philosophy. What do we got Morgan? Yay. Pass it over to Morgan. What do you know? What's going to be about the rules? There may be no single right answer. There may be no single right answer. Why do you pick that one Morgan? What do you know about that rule? Why do we have that one? Because it makes it a deeper conversation which is why there's no single right answer. That's great so people having no single right answer lets us have a more open mind and be more flexible. Another rule? We are going to listen to each other. We are going to listen to each other and how is that helpful? It's helpful to listen to them and think of an idea of what they are thinking. That's how we get the building on isn't it? We have to think about their ideas so if we listen first. Beatrice? We build on each other's ideas. We build on each other's ideas? How is that real helpful? If we don't build on each other's ideas then the philosophy lesson won't grow and we won't be able to build. We don't get deeper into ideas. It doesn't grow. Your ideas don't grow. What's the one that follows, listen? Respect. Respect each other. Can you tell me what you mean by that? So as respects are, like what Xavier said, to listen you need to look at them but that would also be going on to be the founding thing a couple of weeks ago and you don't have to look at someone to be listening. So I could be looking at, I mean just one, all Hector's talking but I could be listening to them. But we are going to try and look at the speaker aren't we? Yeah. Yeah but not stare at them. Yeah. We're going to give them our attention. Like Justin talked about listening the other week about giving people not just your eyes but your ears and your whole self when you're listening to them. We're going to be reasonable. We're going to be reasonable. We're going to be reasonable and to be reasonable what word are we going to use? Because. Because. Yay. Thank you. Be reasonable which means we're going to be able to give our reasons. We're going to use the word because. We're going to try and be appropriate. Really hard. And Ella hasn't had to say yet. Relevant. And we're going to be relevant and that's got something to do with what Hector was saying about making connections. With what everyone's talking about. So you're going to try and stick to the point, not digress. Who was in Annika's class last year? She always digressed, took us off the track. And sometimes we found out it was okay actually. Another few things I want you to think about while we're doing these next few activities is some of the skills that we use in doing philosophy. I want you to think about asking each other questions. Giving examples. Giving counter examples. Forming analogies or metaphors. Uncovering assumptions and making distinctions. And I want you, when you think about doing those things, just to do them, we already have done a little bit of some of those things like Finn was starting to form analogies about caves and French doors and that sort of thing. So actually name the skill that you're using. I want to ask a question about, I'd like to give an example. I'd like to give a counter example. So if you can name the skill that you're using as well, that would be really, really good.