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Ethics [Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 1st period]

"Morning, class," Anakin began, striding to the front of the class. "Today we begin discussions about Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, though his influence stretched into many other areas of physical science as well. He believed that justice meant giving each person their due, or what they deserve. But how do we know what people deserve? What goods and opportunities should go to which people? Aristotle’s answer is that we have to consider the telos—the end or the purpose—of the good in question. For example, say we have some nice flutes. Who should get them? According to Aristotle, it’s not the rich person, since playing flutes has nothing to do with money. Nor is it the person who will be made most happy, since making good music is different than being happy. The purpose of a flute is to be played, and to be played well. So, Aristotle thinks, the flutes should go to the best flute players. Do you agree?"

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Talk about Homecoming or Peter's black eye. And hopefully Topher left the drippy ice cream at home today.

With purpose!

Mmmm, Aristotle in the morning was just like coffee! Only not at all.

Should the flutes go to the best flute players? Or to someone else? Is Aristotle full of it?

"Aristotle thought that human beings were by nature meant to use their reason to deliberate about important moral questions, and to share in the political life of the community. He also thought that government should promote this purpose by helping people to become better informed and more virtuous. Do you agree?"

[OOC: As always, make the threads as messy and jacked as you'd like!]

As it is their purpose.

As it is his purpose.

Though he's a little more interested in putting the final details on his wife's birthday dinner reservations.

Tiny child didn't go to sleep until ten last night and was up before the sun. Coherence might be...asking a lot today.

Luke Castellan

Annie Edison

Jack Carter

Jack was blinking hard for the first part of the lecture. It wasn't until Anakin came to the part of the flutes that he thought that he understood what he was talking about.

Peter didn't have a black eye, thank you. Just a bruised-looking face in the vicinity of his nose.

Some people were just barbarians.

Peter Wiggin

Topher Brink

Topher didn't have ice cream today at all, thank you!

He did have chips, though. But that was more a Topher thing than a mopey thing.

At the same time? He was totally not looking over at Tony ~~if he was there~~. At all. Maybe ever.

Lex Luthor

Now Lex was kind of wondering what would happen if he told his dad he wanted to give it all up to join a band.

From a safe distance. Like across the Atlantic.

Staying this long was pushing it, but Jaina knew it might be the last visit for a while, and she'd kind of been bad with keeping in touch lately. So with a little time before her portal left, she made sure to stop by after class and say, "Told you I'd find you later."

Katniss was looking in better spirits than she had in Ethics classes past, though she didn't stray from her usual pattern of tucking herself into her desk quietly.

Katniss Everdeen

"Yeah," Topher said after a minute of thinking about that. "Or -- kinda. If you're really smart, you should get advantages, like -- books or whatever. Maybe it doesn't matter so much with instruments 'cause they're, like, not that important, but with real stuff, it should probably go to the people who can use 'em."

Such an ass. Such an ass.

"How would we find out if you could use them, though?" Anakin asked. "If books go to those who already know how to read, children would never learn how, right?"

"You're not carrying anything to throw at me, right?" Anakin teased.

"I think the whole idea of nice flutes going to the best flute players is nice but... the whole thing gets complicated with who decides what," Jack said trying phrase his thoughts. "I mean, who's to say one flute player is better than another? Also does that mean a loaf of bread goes to the person who is the most hungry? How does that get decided. Plus what if someone just wants to play a flute? What if I was good at it but wanted to play baseball? Yeah, I think it starts falling apart once you start trying to put it into practice."

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Ethics [Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 1st period]

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Answer the discussion question! [10/25]

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Talk to the TAs [10/25]

Talk to Anakin [10/25]

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