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Daryl Bambic

Mutable Morality, Not Subjective Morality. Moral Pluralism, Not Moral Relativism. - 0 views

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morality

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  • ointing out but wrongly calling “subjectivity”.To say that not only do moralities change but that they should and that even good moralities may not be permanently and at all times good is not to say that morality is subjective
  • Morality, even if mutable, need not be just a matter of arbitrary feelings or tastes that admit of no argument for persuading those who happen to feel differently.
  • good moral judgments
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  • some important extent context
  • dependent.
  • change with different circumstances.  
  • valid measures of human flourishing.
  • broadly definable human goods
  • ntellectual power,
  • ocial organization and cohesion, artistic prowess, physical health, athletic prowess, aesthetic sensitivity and complexity, technological capability, technological achievement, emotional satisfaction, pleasure, political efficiency, virtues,
  • moral pluralism, not relativism.
  • Moral pluralism acknowledges that differing moralities, which in particulars may formally contradict each other, can each be ethically approvable given variations in circumstances or given their respective abilities to meet certain thresholds of valuable contribution to life.
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      Moral pluralism allows for cross cultural (different) standards of morality.
  • Moral relativism would allow for no cross-cultural assessments but would say that the only standard a morality has or needs is the endorsement of a particular individual or culture
  • ocial scientist’s perspecti
  • hilosophical,
  • hat values are best and what moral codes best realize them.
  • onstitute human flourishing and happiness.
  • if we have enough historical understandin
  • Old Testament morality
  • as in its own time the best and most progressive advance for the people who adopted it
  • ays it failed a
  • dismiss the Old Testament as irrelevant to a contemporary context.
  • t is also wholly unpersuasive to claim, as some try, that God’s values have always been the same even as he has given his people moral codes that fit their times or their understanding at each of their stages
Daryl Bambic

On the Role of Censorship | The Book of Life - 0 views

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  • In a democratic, market-oriented society, public culture is hugely important. It guides our collective ideas about what is admirable or shocking, what counts as normal or weird.
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      The Sophists would have made this point.
  • occasionally as a sincere attempt to organise the world for human flourishing.
  • We believe in censorship
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  • ensorship looks small-minded,
  • enemy of a hard-won freedom
  • book burning,
  • intolerance
  • he censorship of Diderot’s Encyclopedia
  • ban on D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  • In the history of censorship, it always seems as if it is something of real value – profound, earnest and true – that is condemned and someone vile, corrupt and absurd who is trying to do the censoring.
  • real threat nowadays
  • we will drown in chaos
  • unable to concentrate on what is genuinely important and good.
  • key argument of those who attack ‘censorship’ today is to claim that we all need to hear all the messages all the time. But do we?
Daryl Bambic

2.7 Is the nature of knowledge changing? | Teaching in a Digital Age - 0 views

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share knowledge 'online_teaching' digital 'digital_age'

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  • The issue is not so much the nature of knowledge, but how students or learners come to acquire that knowledge and learn how it can be used.
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      Has this not always been the case?
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    "Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves."
Daryl Bambic

Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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descartes dualism

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  • what is the relationship between mental properties and physical properties?
  • consciousness
  • Materialist views say that, despite appearances to the contrary, mental states are just physical states.
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  • Behaviourism
  • unctionalism,
  • mind-brain identity theory
  • omputational theory of mind
  • nature of mind and consciousness
  • ndirectly modify behaviour
  • ealist views say that physical states are really mental.
  • empirical
  • product of our collective experience
  • Dualist views
  • the mental and the physical are both real and neither can be assimilated to the other.
  • ato's Phae
  • rue substances are not physical bodies, which are ephemeral, but the eternal Forms
  • bodies are imperfect copies
  • Plato's dualism is not, therefore, simply a doctrine in the philosophy of mind, but an integral part of his whole metaphysics.
  • Aristotle did not believe in Platonic Forms, existing independently of their instances. Aristotelian forms (the capital ‘F’ has disappeared with their standing as autonomous entities) are the natures and properties of things and exist embodied in those things.
  • Aristotle t
  • particular soul exists as the organizing principle in a particular parcel of matter.
  • Descartes
  • mechanist about the properties of matter.
  • The main uncertainty that faced Descartes
  • but how two things so different as thought and extension could interact at all.
Daryl Bambic

How to Write an Introduction to an Argumentative Essay - YouTube - 0 views

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introduction essay

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    Help for writing the introduction to the philosophical essay.
Daryl Bambic

How to Write a Good Argumentative Essay: Logical Structure - YouTube - 0 views

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essay structure

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    Structure for writing the essay.
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