reading a chapter of kalile va demneh (analyzing shir va shoqal story according to p4c's story criteria)

As we all know Kalila wa demne is one of the Persian didactic literature master piece , that is written in the form of story. This book, which is full of ethical and abstract concepts, is eligible to use in another fields such as philosophy for children (P4C) . This paper is the result of examining" shir va shoqal" story according to philosophical stories and children literature features. In this research, which is reported in library and documentary research method , some criteria such as literary acceptability , psychological acceptability , philosophical richness , discursive dialogue and research ability etc have been analyzed. According to the results of analyzing , this story has high ability in order to teach philosophy to children and except rewrite into an understandable level for children and teenagers, and eliminate some cases that are not appropriate to children, absolutely no more change is needed .