Morals and Ethics more important than Physics and Chemistry? - 13 views

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  #3 Quinn3 on 12 Aug 09

   

  That's very noncommittal response as per usual, Dr Lombard. For the week after next, I suggest we discuss the need of teachers to either have opinions or to be opinionless. Is a teacher obliged to praise all sides equally, despite the fact that all sides, all opinions are in fact not equal?
  
  Back to the topic at hand: I think it's an interesting question that Andrew has posed -- but also one with many problems. Science is a field of "valueless truths"; such truths exist outside all value systems, regardless of whether or not one wishes to pay them any heed. But they are useful. On the other hand, different people of different (or even the same) cultures will argue endlessly on what "positive" social interaction entails. What is "moral"? What is "ethical"? Who decides what is taught?

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">That's very noncommittal response as per usual, Dr Lombard. For the week after next, I suggest we discuss the need of teachers to either have opinions or to be opinionless. Is a teacher obliged to praise all sides equally, despite the fact that all sides, all opinions are in fact not equal? <br /> <br /> Back to the topic at hand: I think it's an interesting question that Andrew has posed -- but also one with many problems. Science is a field of "valueless truths"; such truths exist outside all value systems, regardless of whether or not one wishes to pay them any heed. But they are useful. On the other hand, different people of different (or even the same) cultures will argue endlessly on what "positive" social interaction entails. What is "moral"? What is "ethical"? Who decides what is taught?</div>

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