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anthonygonzalez
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« Thread Started on Jun 24, 2005, 1:44pm » | |
Dr. Ketcham thought of a new topic to persue:
"How to use philosophy in real life"
Now, i'm off to ponder this myself, before I try and philosophize the statement, 
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« Reply #1 on Jun 27, 2005, 11:31pm » | |
Some people think it's useless, but I can't imagine where we don't use some type of philosophy.
And yeah, these bigger names it becomes less obvious... But there are certain places they work, for example:
*Hobbes- when trying to get a parking spot at TAMU-K, you must be as vicious as possible, before the other tries to steal your spot-this is from experience on various occasions.
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« Reply #2 on Dec 5, 2005, 12:26pm » | |
*Kant - One ought to respect my right to be vicious except possibly when such viciousness interferes with another individual's right to be self-determining.
*Mill - Being vicious in one's pursuit of a suitable parking spot is justified in that it will promote the greatest overall balance of utility versus dis-utility of any possible alternative.
*Rawls - If placed behind an impenetrable "Veil of Ignorance" would you still agree that a person ought to be vicious in pursuit of a parking spot knowing full well that it may be you that is the target of said viciousness?
*Euthyphro - The gods told me that I ought to be vicious, so vicious I shall be.
*Aquinas - My proper purpose is to be vicious while in pursuit of parking.
*Descartes - What parking spot. There is no evidence to support the existence of such a thing.
*Heraclitus - The available parking spot is forever changing.
Just a few off the top of my head...Your turn again! 
Oh...did you all hear that we won first and second at the Regional Ethics Bowl at Saint Mary's in San Antonio? I am still high off the sweet sweet nectar of victory  . Apparently we are ethically superior to the competition .
Also, Don Berkich is contemplating teaching an advanced logic course in the spring semester as a DIS class and I believe that he was entertaining the possibility of extending the invite to all of our illustrious brethren of the Kingsville variety. Reply back if you are interested and I will keep him updated...or you could always just email him...I suppose that would work as well.
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« Reply #3 on Dec 12, 2005, 1:54pm » | |
Congratulations on your conquest. How is this "Ethics Bowl" organized?
As far as the post goes...I think i need context, that is, what is "real life"???
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« Reply #4 on Dec 16, 2005, 10:17pm » | |
Interesting you should ask, Anthony. The Ethics Bowl is just like a debate...only completely different. It is sort of abstract to say the least. Essentially what takes place is that anywhere from four to six weeks prior to the competition the team coaches are emailed somewhere between seven and ten case each containing situations that depict various ethical conundrums. The coach then gets together with anyone interested in partaking in the Ethics Bowl and they begin to rigorously discuss and, in our case, research all of the cases.
Five of those interested are then decided upon as being the "Ethics Bowlers" for the competition. Upon arriving at the competition, each team is pitted against another in a "round". This involves flipping a coin to decide whom will go first and upon that decision the judges open a sealed envelope containing one of the cases and a question unknown to the judges or teams beforehand. Whichever team was selected to go first then gets one minute to confer and then one member of that team must address the presented question. The presenter gets ten minutes to address the question (typically general enough to apply various ethical theories to establish one's stance). At the conclusion of the response, the other team gets the chance to confer for one minute and then one person presents a response up to five minutes in length. The other team need not disagree with the first, but as points are given based upon these responses something original ought be presented.
After this reply, the team who received the original question gets a five minute rejoinder after a one minute conferring time. Finally comes the time for the judges to ask any questions they may have to the original team for a period of ten minutes.
At the conclusion of this, the round is half over. The above process is then repeated with a different unrevealed case and question with the other team taking the initial response this time. After this half of the round is completed, the judges tally up their score. The team with the highest score is said to have won the round and receives an additional 25 bonus points for doing so.
The regional competition contained three rounds against various teams. It took roughly four and a half hours total to complete the competition, itself, with little or no time between rounds to regain your composure.
It was INTENSE to say the least. I am happy I took part, however. It is probably the most fun I have ever had being that stressed in my entire life. Of course, placing was an added bonus. It was commitment and work enough to have been its own class and even then it would have been an intimidating amount of work.
Anyways, if you want to know anymore about it you can reply here or email me at greywolfe03@hotmail.com.
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