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Learn from Children?
Christopher Phillips in conversation with Ralph Lewin

Cafe opens at noon.

Join Christopher Phillips in conversation with Ralph Lewin as they talk about Phillips latest book, The Philosophy of Childing: Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest. Phillips weaves together philosophy, social science, and the latest in neuroscience research. He takes a radically different approach revealing how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks call arête—all-around excellence—when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development.

Christopher Phillips is the bestselling author of Socrates Café, and the highly-acclaimed follow-ups, Socrates in Love, and Constitution Café. Phillips was an ethics network fellow at Harvard University, and a recipient of the Distinguished American Leader award. His writing inspired meet-ups in which people of all ages exchange ideas embracing the Socratic Method—and today there are more than six hundred ongoing gatherings around the world.

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