Philosophy Behind Bars : : Growth and Development in Prison / / Kirstine Szifris.
Long-term prisoners need to be given the space to reflect, and grow. This ground-breaking study found that engaging prisoners in philosophy education enabled them to think about some of the ‘big’ questions in life and as a result to see themselves and others differently. Using the prisoners’ own wor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 Black and White |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Philosophy, Identity and the ‘Ship of Theseus’
- Towards Theory: People, Places and Voices
- Survival, Plato and the Ideal Society
- Kant, Bentham and the Question of Identity
- ‘Why Do You Think That?’ Descartes, Hume and Knowledge
- Not Just an Offender, But a Person
- Trying to Find a Community of Philosophical Inquiry
- Finding Trust and Developing Relationships
- Personal Self-Exploration
- Towards a Framework for Understanding Philosophy in Prison
- Final Reflections
- Appendix: Technical Methods
- Bibliography
- Index