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Reasonableness is a common topic in the Philosophy for Children (P4C) literature. Nevertheless some important aspects regarding the inter-relationship among reasonableness, emotion and community of inquiry has not been theoretically addressed. Our thesis is that the emergence of reasonableness depends on the way emotions are fostered as crucial for the ethos of the community of inquiry because they play an important role in promoting the self-corrective and regulative aspects of thinking.
We shows that just as thinking about thinking helps us to modify, correct and refine the activity of thinking for the continual growth of reasonableness in a community, so emotions about emotions help to modify, correct and refine the way we feel for deepening the sense of reasonableness.
Thus, in the context of a community of philosophical inquiry, the growth of reasonableness can be acknowledged in self-evaluating moments because it enables participants to pay attention and regulate meta-emotions. This allows the community to foster deeper and more rigorous inquiry (cognition) and to acknowledge it (metacognition), turning thinking, feeling, acting and being like a community into a shared deliberate activity.
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Filosofia para Crianças Emoções Razoabilidade
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Costa-Carvalho, M; Mendonça, D., “Thinking as a community: Reasonableness and Emotions”, in The Routledge International Handbook of Philosophy for Children, eds. Maughn Gregory, Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris, Routledge, pp. 127-134.
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Routledge