Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Assembly


Objective
  • Evaluate our school's attempts to "educate the whole person" in an Aristotelian way through an assembly about alcohol and decision-making.
Agenda
  • No Written Warm-Up
  • How To Watch Philosophically
    • Be open minded, but take an analytical approach.
    • Analyze the rhetorical approach: Is this argument logical?  Reliance on emotional appeal?  Does it hold up on a universal level?
    • Is he making an appeal to your personal happiness, ethics, or both?
    • Evaluate the form of moral reasoning:  Is the advice given deontological, consequentialist, and/or an appeal to virtue?
    • Think about philosophers.  Ex: What would Kant say about this?
    • Look at the overall approach in terms of phronesis (practical wisdom).  Does  this educational program achieve its ends? If so, what's good about it.  If not, is there a better way to do so?  Is the ends futile, irrelevant, or unneeded?
  • Assembly
  • Discussion / Reflection

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