Stem Cells and Cloning

Any comments??

Biomedical Ethics

Consider the case of Zain Hashmi - he needs a baby brother or sister to save his life. In creating this new child many embryos will be destroyed. The new child may feel like it was created for 'spare parts'

1) what ethical issues do you see arising from this situation?
2) What do you think - should the Hashmi's have been allowed to create this new life using genetic screening?

Start and continue a debate!!

Do all humans have morals ? What makes us human?

READ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/17/ftdog17.xml&page=1

WATCH
http://6.cn/watch/457602.html

What are the key philosophical themes? What questions does this raise? What is your opinion?

Language Games - Meta Ethics

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How is this relevant? What questions does it raise in relation to ethics? What answers do you have?

What is God - Higher. Lorenzo Albacete

What are the main points, note these on paper. Here discuss any further questions that arise, or any points you feel help us to answer the question "What is God?"


EXTENSION
http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=safi&topic=whatsgod

Go to this link. Listen to at least 2 more people. For all clips, on paper make notes on their views, and list questions you might want to further ask or discuss. Add them to your thoughts, where relevant, on the blog.

Dark Knight of The Soul

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The Author saw the Philosophy in this, that I hope you saw. Imagine this was coursework - would it be any good? What can you take from it?

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Shirley Hughes on being a philosopher

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for now just READ
add any comments, questions you like

Doing Philosophy (Higher)

The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given. Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect.

Betrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy - OUP 1969

What questions does this pose and how can you provide an answer? If this was your stimulus how would you create an essay - choose an aspect - about doing philosophy and start a discussion!

Have you woken up?

Is this philosophy? What questions does it ask? Does it provide any answers?

Plato's cave in a cartoon

An easy version - what do you think of the last statement?

To amuse you

So how does this relate to Philosophy?