Monday, May 4, 2020

(Conversation) Ethics and Technology

Who are these dudes?

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Answer


Socrates
Aristotle
Kong, Fu-Zi (Confucius)
The Buddha
Jesus
Muhammad 
Niccolo Machiavelli
Immanuel Kant
Friederich Nietsche
Hannah Arendt
Albert Camus



Which person said it? Add the missing words.

1. "The sad truth is that most ______ is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

2. "Kindness is a mark of _____, and whoever has not kindness has not faith."

3. "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot _____."

4. "For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his _____? "

5. "I _____ and I forget. I ______ and I remember. I ____ and I understand."

6. “Science is organized knowledge. ______ is organized life.” 

7. "The _____ is everything. What you think you become."

8. “The whole is greater than the _____ of its parts.”

9. "Politics have no relation to ______."

10. "An unexamined life is ____ worth living."

11. "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is ________."

Answer

1. Hannah Arendt
2. Muhammad
3. Friederich Nietsche
4. Jesus
5. Kong, Fu-Zi (Confucius)6. Immanuel Kant
7. The Buddha
8. Aristotle
9. Niccolo Machiavelli
10. Socrates
11. Albert Camus



Which of these quotes

A) Is concerned directly with ethics?
B) Is concerned indirectly with ethics?
C) Isn't concerned with ethics?

Write A, B or C next to the quote.


In what way could some of these quotes apply to the question technology and ethics?


12 terms


Discuss the video

Built in prejudices

What technology is being demonstrated?
What does the demonstration show us about that technology?






Split listening / viewing

Students A and B watch two different updates a few times - make notes on the different stories - then share them in pairs


BBC Tech update

If using a mobile device just google robotic priest BBC and click the top result.

BBC Tech Update 2

Which stories involved questions around moral behaviour?

If using mobile device, google jumping space robot BBC and click on top result.


To feel good:

Giving back sight to the blind






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