Adventures with Bingo Borden

• Author(s): Al Anderson,
• Publisher: Agora Publications, Incorporated
• Pages: 77
• ISBN_10: 1887250468
  ISBN_13: 9781887250467
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction / Readers / Intermediate , Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General , Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dragons, Unicorns & Mythical , Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature / General , Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America , Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic , Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Values & Virtues , Juvenile Fiction / Monsters ,

Description:... The Growing Mind Series, produced for children, contributes to Agora Publications? goal of bringing philosophy to life. The mind manifests an organic process, incorporating several stages of realization, creation, and development. Although there is no formula or set pattern for the growing mind, two separate phases can be identified: mythos and logos. Philosophers such as Plato, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Sartre blend these two phases into single dialogues, stories, novels, and plays, but most often one or the other of these aspects of philosophy dominates over the other. Imagining dominates in mythos, serving to bring ideas to consciousness from the depths of human life. The images found in myths, stories, poems, and a variety of other artistic forms require interpretation, analysis, and explanation in order to connect with logos, where logic, argument, explication, and critical reasoning dominate. The stories about Bingo Borden lie mostly within the realm of mythos. Preschool children can listen to them and appreciate and enjoy them long before they learn to read and think more deeply about their meaning. As they grow, they can listen again and again to these stories, find additional layers of meaning, and explore some of the profound questions of human existence. The choice of words and conceptual structure in the stories contribute to building a child's vocabulary and to modes of thinking that prepare the way for mature states of mind.