1. This is what I looked like yesterday.
2. For Philosophy class, I wore a white shirt with a purple monster on it screaming ‘FEED ME!’
3. Yes, you are seeing correctly. That is a page full of notes. Take note: on the very first day of class. She sure fed me alright. Except instead of food, she opted for knowledge.
It turns out that she, my professor (Ms. Cleofas), is not so bad. Embarrassing sidenote: I was outside my classroom with Diane and I asked her (rather loudly): ‘Have you heard anything about our teacher?’ Diane shrugged and said, ‘I don’t know much but I heard she’s A-able.’ And then I realized, from the corner of my eye, that she (our teacher) was standing right behind us. If you know me in real life, you’ll just laugh and see this as me pulling an Isa. This big mouth of mine has gotten me into trouble LOTS of time.
4. A hello note from Diane, who sits beside me in class. So far, I really like her. Ms. Cleofas, I mean. She seems intelligent and interesting. For our first class, she made us listen to a podcast and it was really really good. She teaches Philosophy of Ethics and Morality, btw. The podcast guys talked about an interesting moral dilemma. Let me share:
Let’s say you’re standing by a railroad and you see that a train is coming. Five construction workers, who are (for unknown reasons) oblivious to the oncoming train, are meters away from being killed by it. Now, you have a lever by your side and if you pull it, the train will switch to the next track. The only catch is that there is a man over there who is also oblivious to the train. What would you do? Pull the lever and save five at the expense of one? Or let the five die by not doing anything?
At least 30 of us (in a class of 35) said we’d pull the lever.
Let’s change the situation. What if you were standing on a bridge above the railroad, overlooking everything. You see the train from afar, you see the five men but instead of a lever, there is a large man beside you. He’s so large, in fact, that if you push him over, he will definitely stop the train from running over the five. Now the question is: would you push him?
3 said they would.
The interesting thing is that the two situations are essentially the same. You’re sacrificing one for the sake of five. However, for some reason, more people are apprehensive about pushing a man compared to pulling a lever even if both actions yield the same results. This is what morality and ethics is about. It questions why we think that way and how we come up with our concept of right and wrong.
It’s going to be a good class. I know it. (The downside is we have homework already. Boo.)
1. This is what I looked like yesterday.
2. For Philosophy class, I wore a white shirt with a purple monster on it screaming ‘FEED ME!’
3. Yes, you are seeing correctly. That is a page full of notes. Take note: on the very first day of class. She sure fed me alright. Except instead of food, she opted for knowledge.
It turns out that she, my professor (Ms. Cleofas), is not so bad. Embarrassing sidenote: I was outside my classroom with Diane and I asked her (rather loudly): ‘Have you heard anything about our teacher?’ Diane shrugged and said, ‘I don’t know much but I heard she’s A-able.’ And then I realized, from the corner of my eye, that she (our teacher) was standing right behind us. If you know me in real life, you’ll just laugh and see this as me pulling an Isa. This big mouth of mine has gotten me into trouble LOTS of time.
4. A hello note from Diane, who sits beside me in class. So far, I really like her. Ms. Cleofas, I mean. She seems intelligent and interesting. For our first class, she made us listen to a podcast and it was really really good. She teaches Philosophy of Ethics and Morality, btw. The podcast guys talked about an interesting moral dilemma. Let me share:
Let’s say you’re standing by a railroad and you see that a train is coming. Five construction workers, who are (for unknown reasons) oblivious to the oncoming train, are meters away from being killed by it. Now, you have a lever by your side and if you pull it, the train will switch to the next track. The only catch is that there is a man over there who is also oblivious to the train. What would you do? Pull the lever and save five at the expense of one? Or let the five die by not doing anything?
At least 30 of us (in a class of 35) said we’d pull the lever.
Let’s change the situation. What if you were standing on a bridge above the railroad, overlooking everything. You see the train from afar, you see the five men but instead of a lever, there is a large man beside you. He’s so large, in fact, that if you push him over, he will definitely stop the train from running over the five. Now the question is: would you push him?
3 said they would.
The interesting thing is that the two situations are essentially the same. You’re sacrificing one for the sake of five. However, for some reason, more people are apprehensive about pushing a man compared to pulling a lever even if both actions yield the same results. This is what morality and ethics is about. It questions why we think that way and how we come up with our concept of right and wrong.
It’s going to be a good class. I know it. (The downside is we have homework already. Boo.)
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