ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses some the basic attitudes or virtues involved in philosophising and searching wisdom the Dialogos way. The virtues are discussed by combining Jasper’s notion of the drive for authentic communication as one of four basic drives in the search of wisdom, Buber’s notion of profound communication in genuine I-You encounters, and Skjervheim’s emphasis of the third – in our context the subject matter – as necessary in subject-subject encounters as opposed to subject-object encounters. Through examples of dialogues with children, youths, and adults in different contexts, the chapter shows and discusses how the attitudes might be lived in practice on the one side, and how children are reflecting and searching for wisdom on the other side. Supported by research on the human brain, it is argued that learning to communicate “heart to heart” is important for human development in general, and thus for a wisdom oriented pedagogy in particular. The main example of the chapter is the example of Masih, who experienced that philosophising upon the concept forgiveness transformed him, and gave his life direction.
