Week 5: Forming Ethical

Questions

TOK Socratic Seminar: Ethical Reasoning

Teams: Your Choice of Scholarly Journals

for Socratic Seminar Prep next

week, Thursday

Socratic Seminar

• SS: TOK Chs. 7-8, p. 237-257

• Discussion:

– What areas and frameworks of

ethics made the most sense to

you?

– Discuss consequentialist v. non-

consequentialist ethics. Create

a list of 5 pros v. cons for both.

– Write a problem of knowledge

question from your section.

• AIO: Gene Modification Discussion– Discuss your Problems of Knowledge,

claims and evidences. What do they all

have in common?

My Problems of Knowledge:

• What factors are involved with definitions of “safety” regarding ethical reasoning? How is it connected to discussions of biodiversity and business ethics?

• To what extent does one’s conception of justice stem from familiarity and proximity over and against innate human value?

• What scope should ethical culpability take when forming and appropriate consumer ethical reasoning?

Works Cited

• URL List from Sunday, Feb. 10 2013 23:51 PM

• To copy this list, type [Ctrl] A, then type [Ctrl] C.

Beverly Bell: Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/haitian-farmers-commit-to_b_578807.html

PLB143 - Lecture 20: Who owns biodiversity?

http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/Lec20/PLB143l20new.htm

Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes - ProPublica

http://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-so-far-about-drone-strikes

The Best Pro-Life Arguments for Secular Audiences

http://www.frc.org/brochure/the-best-pro-life-arguments-for-secular-audiences

The Humble Libertarian: The Abortion Debate: A Reasoned, Scientific Pro-Life Argument

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2009/06/abortion-debate-reasoned-pro-life.html

Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Aulaqi

Here Are The Real Foxconn Atrocities - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-the-real-foxconn-atrocities-2012-3

Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn? - Bloomberg

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-03-20-now-can-we-start-talking-about-the-real-foxconn/

How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/

Al-Awlaki's Son Among Al Qaeda Militants Killed in Yemen Air Strike | Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/15/yemen-says-local-al-qaeda-media-chief-six-others-killed/

Forming Ethical Questions:Formal Socratic Seminar

Thursday, 2/20/13