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• Plato, who thought happiness was social and wisdom;
• Epicurus, who thought happiness was physical pleasures;
• Pascal, who thought happiness was morality and awareness
• Nietzsche, who thought happiness was unlikely to us.
AIMS
• To develop intuition and deepen the concepts understanding ;
• To apply the concepts learned during the debate;
• To develop critical, personal and deeper thinking;
• To develop reporting skills (written and oral);
• To practice collaborative problem solving;
• To exercise curiosity and creativity ;
• To better appreciate Philosophy role;
• To develop acceptance of a different point of view;
• To develop negotiation skills
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
• Duration: 2 hours
• Presentation of different Philosophers’ point of view (10’)(fig 8-9)
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Group split: choosing the favorite philosopher or an idea of happiness, the students split in four groups
and seat in circle. (5’)
• Discussion: Turning, they try to explain what happiness is according to their own opinion is. (25’)
• Quote selection for the group idea (from the Philosophical dossier) (5’)
• Exchange of quotes, one group to another (2’)
• Planning of two different activity: The Debate Activity and the final Activity
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Debate activity: choosing a song, a poem, a picture or a short video to explain their idea of happiness to
the rest of the class (30’)(Fig 10)
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Final activity: Imagining a situation in which their point of view must contrast the opposite one. It is
necessary to build a discussion, a “debate” through a video, a song or a theatre play.