1. TOK Socratic Seminar: Ethical Reasoning
Teams: Your Choice of Scholarly Journals
for Socratic Seminar Prep next
week, Thursday
Week 5: Forming Ethical
Questions
2. 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?
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15. 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?
16. 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/
