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What’s the point of ethics?
It’s a frequent misconception that the Hippocratic Oath contains the phrase “do no harm”, and that means that doctors can’t do anything that might hurt their patients. But it doesn’t, and sometimes they have to. Primarily the thrust of the … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, #rhizo14, D&G, MOOC, Rhizomes
Tagged #rhizomes, consequentialism, education, ethics, harm, Kant, medical ethics, virtue ethics
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A herd of freely associating, autonomous cats.
At the moment some of us are attempting to finish an article about the collaborative autoethnography we’ve been working on since the second week of #rhizo14 (the first rMOOC?). One thing we’re attempting to characterise is the way that we zigzagged between … Continue reading
Scribbling all over the place.
I’ve never been one to toe the line: my automatic reaction to being told I must do something is to say no, and I spend way longer looking for ways to thwart bureaucracy than obeying its diktats. And I loathe … Continue reading
Institutionalisation of values
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau, Social Contract, Book 1 I’m teaching my first years Rousseau and I’m (meant to be) reading Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society – everywhere I look there are critiques of the state … Continue reading
Anarchy
As my old supervisor, Dudley Knowles, used to say, the anarchist is not typically found skulking outside the Houses of Parliament with a bomb beneath her long, black coat – the philosophical anarchist is a gentle soul with a belief … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged anarchism, anarchy, Dudley Knowles, political philosophy
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Sapere Aude
In 1784 Kant asked a question: What is Enlightenment? His answer was that it was having the courage to use one’s own reason: Sapere Aude – dare to be wise. In order for this to happen, he said, we must be free … Continue reading
Posted in #MoocMooc, Critical pedagogy, Philosophy
Tagged Kant, responsibility, sapere aude
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Being a good libertarian
There are a few passages is Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed where he talks about (or is translated as talking about) libertarian education. For example: The raison d’etre of libertarian education, on the other hand, lies in its drive towards reconciliation. Education … Continue reading
Political compass
A lot of us talk about people being left wing or right wing, but actually there is also another axis on which to measure: authoritarian/libertarian. There is a political compass that you can use to check out where you lie … Continue reading
The pedagogical is always political
I grew up hearing the feminist mantra that “the personal is political” (I always misquote that, and add an “always”, maybe because I believe it needs to be emphasised). It means different things to different people, but to me it … Continue reading
A poet who didn’t know it?
I have been introduced to the rather lovely Poetweet which has made this for me and this In principle by Sarah Honeychurch You should meet and When the speaker does not engage. I’m calling on to stop in Scotland Aye, it … Continue reading
