Mister Rogers and Philosophy
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which began as The Children’s Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America.

The show’s message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, while also provoking some criticism because, by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it, the show supposedly created an entitled generation.

In Mister Rogers and Philosophy, thirty philosophers give their very different takes on the Neighborhood phenomenon.

● Rogers’s way of communicating with children has a Socratic dimension, and is compared with other attempts to cultivate philosophy in children.

● Wonder is the origin of philosophy and science, and Mister Rogers always looked for wonder.

● Did Mister Rogers unwittingly create the Millennials by his message that everyone is special?

● What Martin Buber’s I-Thou philosophy can tell us about Fred Rogers’s attempt to rehabilitate children’s television.

● X the Owl obsesses, Daniel Tiger regresses, Lady Elaine displaces anger, King Friday controls––how puppets can be used to teach us about feelings.

● Fred Rogers’s indirect communication is key to the show, and most evident in the land of make-believe, where he doesn’t make himself known.

● How Mister Rogers helps us see that the ordinary world is extraordinary, if we’re willing to open ourselves up to it.

● How does Mister Rogers’s method of teaching compare with Maria Montessori’s?

● Fred Rogers and Carl Rogers have a lot in common: The Neighborhood is observed in the light of Rogerian therapy.

● Mister Rogers’s view of evil is closer to Rousseau than to Voltaire.

● Fred Rogers gave a non-philosophical interpretation of the philosophical approach known as personalism.

● Daoism helps us understand how Fred Rogers, the antithesis of a stereotypical male, could achieve such success as a TV star.

● In the show and in his life, we can see how Rogers lived “the ethics of care.”

● Puppets help children understand that persons are not isolated, but interconnected.

● Mister Rogers showed us that talking and singing about our feelings makes them more manageable.
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Mister Rogers and Philosophy
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which began as The Children’s Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America.

The show’s message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, while also provoking some criticism because, by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it, the show supposedly created an entitled generation.

In Mister Rogers and Philosophy, thirty philosophers give their very different takes on the Neighborhood phenomenon.

● Rogers’s way of communicating with children has a Socratic dimension, and is compared with other attempts to cultivate philosophy in children.

● Wonder is the origin of philosophy and science, and Mister Rogers always looked for wonder.

● Did Mister Rogers unwittingly create the Millennials by his message that everyone is special?

● What Martin Buber’s I-Thou philosophy can tell us about Fred Rogers’s attempt to rehabilitate children’s television.

● X the Owl obsesses, Daniel Tiger regresses, Lady Elaine displaces anger, King Friday controls––how puppets can be used to teach us about feelings.

● Fred Rogers’s indirect communication is key to the show, and most evident in the land of make-believe, where he doesn’t make himself known.

● How Mister Rogers helps us see that the ordinary world is extraordinary, if we’re willing to open ourselves up to it.

● How does Mister Rogers’s method of teaching compare with Maria Montessori’s?

● Fred Rogers and Carl Rogers have a lot in common: The Neighborhood is observed in the light of Rogerian therapy.

● Mister Rogers’s view of evil is closer to Rousseau than to Voltaire.

● Fred Rogers gave a non-philosophical interpretation of the philosophical approach known as personalism.

● Daoism helps us understand how Fred Rogers, the antithesis of a stereotypical male, could achieve such success as a TV star.

● In the show and in his life, we can see how Rogers lived “the ethics of care.”

● Puppets help children understand that persons are not isolated, but interconnected.

● Mister Rogers showed us that talking and singing about our feelings makes them more manageable.
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which began as The Children’s Corner in 1953 and terminated in 2001, left its mark on America.

The show’s message of kindness, simplicity, and individual uniqueness made Rogers a beloved personality, while also provoking some criticism because, by arguing that everyone was special without having to do anything to earn it, the show supposedly created an entitled generation.

In Mister Rogers and Philosophy, thirty philosophers give their very different takes on the Neighborhood phenomenon.

● Rogers’s way of communicating with children has a Socratic dimension, and is compared with other attempts to cultivate philosophy in children.

● Wonder is the origin of philosophy and science, and Mister Rogers always looked for wonder.

● Did Mister Rogers unwittingly create the Millennials by his message that everyone is special?

● What Martin Buber’s I-Thou philosophy can tell us about Fred Rogers’s attempt to rehabilitate children’s television.

● X the Owl obsesses, Daniel Tiger regresses, Lady Elaine displaces anger, King Friday controls––how puppets can be used to teach us about feelings.

● Fred Rogers’s indirect communication is key to the show, and most evident in the land of make-believe, where he doesn’t make himself known.

● How Mister Rogers helps us see that the ordinary world is extraordinary, if we’re willing to open ourselves up to it.

● How does Mister Rogers’s method of teaching compare with Maria Montessori’s?

● Fred Rogers and Carl Rogers have a lot in common: The Neighborhood is observed in the light of Rogerian therapy.

● Mister Rogers’s view of evil is closer to Rousseau than to Voltaire.

● Fred Rogers gave a non-philosophical interpretation of the philosophical approach known as personalism.

● Daoism helps us understand how Fred Rogers, the antithesis of a stereotypical male, could achieve such success as a TV star.

● In the show and in his life, we can see how Rogers lived “the ethics of care.”

● Puppets help children understand that persons are not isolated, but interconnected.

● Mister Rogers showed us that talking and singing about our feelings makes them more manageable.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812694772
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/15/2019
Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy , #128
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Eric J. Mohr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania. His published works have focused on phenomenology. Holly K. Mohr has taught philosophy and religious studies, and is currently Director of Religious Education at Saint Mary of the Mount Parish in Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Welcome to the Neighborhood Holly K. Mohr ix

Thanks xi

I Did You Know It's All Right to Wonder? 1

1 The Wonderful Feeling of Being Alive Jacob Graham 3

2 Mesmeric Mister Rogers Marlene Clark 11

3 Wonder and Philosophy as a Way Home Nathan Mueller Leilani Mueller 19

4 The Gently Socratic Inquiry of Fred Rogers Ben Lukey Steve "Chip" Bein 29

II What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel? 39

5 Another Day in the Neighborhood Sydney Ball Eric J. Mohr 41

6 Peace through Emotional Development Nathaniel J. McDonald Frank Scalambrino 49

7 Feelings, Mentionable and Manageable Jonathan Heaps 57

III By Pretending You Can Be Most Anything You Can Think About 65

8 The Virtues of Art David Boersema 67

9 Fred's Felt Friends Daniel Leonard 75

10 Play in the Real World Elizabeth F. Cooke 85

11 Mister Rogers's Pseudonyms Hoon J. Lee 93

12 Puppets Are People Too Sara Lindey Jason King 101

13 Won't You Be My Posthuman Neighbor Fernando Pagnoni Berns 111

IV You Are My Friend, You Are Special to Me 119

14 A Party to Celebrate the Personal Eric J. Mohr 121

15 I, Thou, and the Neighborhood James McLachlan 131

16 Loved into Being Scott F. Parker 139

17 A Word from a Man Mister Rogers Ruined Nicolas Michaud 149

18 Lessons from Fred Rogers's Dao John M. Thompson 157

19 If Everyone's Special,… Is Anyone Special? Grace Wehniainen 167

V There Are Many Ways to Solve a Problem 175

20 What Would Mister Rogers Say? Jennifer Shaw Fischer Bob Fischer 177

21 Mister Rogers's Lesson for Democracy Matthew Ussia 185

22 Won't You Be My Comrade? Christopher M. Innes 195

23 The Neighborhood Is Us Trip McCrossin 205

24 Fred Rogers and the Ethics of Care A.G. Holdier 213

References 219

Author Bios 223

Index 231

Index of Episodes 235

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