Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

aout th rlationship twn
Assumptions
and thir soial nvironmnt play
individuals
rol in how w judg popl in th past.
a
us th word “assumptions” aus th
W
sins ar yt to rval a lar answr
human
this qustion. If, for xampl, w assum
to
individuals hav a signifiant dgr
that
autonomy and indpndn, w may
of
mor harshly dspit th standards
judgthm
thir tim. On th othr hand, som argu
of
popl ar not ntirly, or vn mostly, frthinkrs,
that
ut rathr dply inflund y thir
nvironmnt? Th philosophr Julian
soial
has argud that th truth is somwhr
Baggini
th middl. W ar apal of thinking
in
ourslvs, ut w ar also shapd y our
for
in ways that w might not
nvironmnt
onsidr.
vn
trms: “Why sxist
Sarh
raist philosophrs
and
1. To what xtnt do you agr with Baggini’s
Baggini’s viw, two prolmati idas onspir
In
in historial judgmnt.
togthr
Th lous of moral rsponsiility is th
•
individual.
Individuals mddd in an immoral systm
•
ris aov that systm.
an
thn should w judg individuals in th
How
Is this viw not in itslf an argumnt in
past?
of a hoplss moral rlativism? Baggini
favour
on Edith Hall’s dfn of Aristotl’s
draws
as a way out: judg him not y
misogyny
standards, ut ask whthr his
ontmporary
would lad to th sam prjudi today.
thinking
rquirs th sort of historial imagination
This
arlir in th haptr, for whih fw,
nountrd
any, ojtiv truths will guid us.
if
2. Dos h rsolv th moral rlativism
What assumptions dos h mak aout
3.
natur, th past and our aility to
human
What ar th risks and potntial nfits of
4.
his argumnt?
following
IV. Ethics
IV. Ethics
For discussion and reflection
How do we judge the past?
qustion?
Rad th artil y Julian Baggini linkd hr.
know th past?
might still admiral”
argumnt?
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