Explain the Components of Caring Thinking by Emphasizing Its Principles and Ethical Implications in the Philosophy for Children Program

Careful thinking means observing the principles of dialogue, accepting the conditions and characteristics of the other side of the dialogue, observing turn, empathy, moral judgment, and so on. The main purpose of this article is to explain the conceptual components of caring thinking in life in the field of teaching philosophy to children and to provide a framework for it with a descriptive-analytical method and emphasizing the ethical foundations of this thinking and its ethical consequences.

In order to achieve the purpose of the study, with a holistic approach, library resources and qualitative and quantitative studies on philosophy for children and caring thinking were first collected, categorized and classified. According to the results of the study, what is very important is that in teaching caring thinking, we are dealing with a large amount of content that has not been localized, so it is necessary to localize some content and also think more and more fundamentally to the end of this training, while taking advantage of the very positive features of caring thinking, to double the ethical aspects of this type of thinking. By showing the conceptual geography of caring thinking, this research has highlighted the positive moral characteristics of this type of thinking and at the same time has not neglected its shortcomings, and by pointing to the obstacles in its way, has provided general headlines to eliminate these shortcomings. In this way, this kind of thinking, which has very positive characteristics, can be used in the service of transcendent moral values.