Introduction to Logic

Today we started with Sam Harris' TED talk on The Moral Landscape. The first quiz question was which picture would you rather be in - the one on the left or the one on the right - and what did you think of his using this dichotomy as an indication of how easily science could solve moral dilemmas? Was it fair? This started us discussing the nature of various ethical positions in the text and I used my cognitive map to present this. You may be interested in Robert Putnam or Peter Berger with regard to the way I arranged my map. The second quiz question concerned Utilitarianism and was a fill in the blank: Better to be a dissatisfied human than a happy pig, better to be a dissatisfied Socrates than a -------? We also watched a debate between John Cleese and Malcolm Muggeridge after watching a segment that especially irritated the Bishop in the debate.