Experiential Understanding of Ethics

Dr. Mathai Baker Fenn
mathai@thetalkshop.in
Education
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Bildung Vs. Ausbuildung

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Teacher Centric to Learner Centric

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Multimedia and Analytic Vs. Synthetic Knowledge

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One Truth/One Answer or Many?
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Uni-directional Vs Multi directional

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Knowing That and Knowing How

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Serious Learning Vs Fun

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Critical Thinking

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Facts, Emotions and Relationships: Learning by imitation
Five Stages of Knowledge
I. Preprocessing
II.Observation/Data
III.Information
IV.Knowledge
V.Wisdom
VI.Realization / Love / non-judgmental
acceptance
The Problems With Teaching Ethics
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Normative Vs. Descriptive: take a stand
Death of God and the journey from Wissenschaft to
Wirtschaft
THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE
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Why should I be ethical?

Can you teach ethics without being ethical yourself?
Ethics and Compliance: Rule Maker – Gandhiji's
perspective
Videos and References
Video
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Ethics @ Harvard http://goo.gl/0wfkq9

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Nietzche (Death of God) http://youtu.be/DHxuA8ZNvlU

Text
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Virtue Ethics from Stanford
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
Metamotivation by Maslow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation
Micheal J. Sandel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sandel
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  • 1.
    Experiential Understanding ofEthics Dr. Mathai Baker Fenn mathai@thetalkshop.in
  • 2.
    Education ● Bildung Vs. Ausbuildung ● TeacherCentric to Learner Centric ● Multimedia and Analytic Vs. Synthetic Knowledge ● One Truth/One Answer or Many? – Uni-directional Vs Multi directional ● Knowing That and Knowing How ● Serious Learning Vs Fun ● Critical Thinking ● Facts, Emotions and Relationships: Learning by imitation
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    Five Stages ofKnowledge I. Preprocessing II.Observation/Data III.Information IV.Knowledge V.Wisdom VI.Realization / Love / non-judgmental acceptance
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    The Problems WithTeaching Ethics ● ● ● Normative Vs. Descriptive: take a stand Death of God and the journey from Wissenschaft to Wirtschaft THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE – ● ● Why should I be ethical? Can you teach ethics without being ethical yourself? Ethics and Compliance: Rule Maker – Gandhiji's perspective
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    Videos and References Video ● Ethics@ Harvard http://goo.gl/0wfkq9 ● Nietzche (Death of God) http://youtu.be/DHxuA8ZNvlU Text ● ● ● Virtue Ethics from Stanford http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ Metamotivation by Maslow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamotivation Micheal J. Sandel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sandel
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    © ● This presentation isprovided under the Creative Commons Share Alike Lisence. With the rider that attribution is desirable, but not necessary. – ● http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/ You are free to... – – ● ● Copy/share/embed, adapt/edit/change and use this presentation in digital or physical form Use this presentation and its content for commercial or any other use. If you do make changes you are required to clearly show that these changes are not attributed to the first author Content created and shared by other authors / publishers are not covered in this lisence. Please look up theirs independently.
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    © ● This presentation isprovided under the Creative Commons Share Alike Lisence. With the rider that attribution is desirable, but not necessary. – ● http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/ You are free to... – – ● ● Copy/share/embed, adapt/edit/change and use this presentation in digital or physical form Use this presentation and its content for commercial or any other use. If you do make changes you are required to clearly show that these changes are not attributed to the first author Content created and shared by other authors / publishers are not covered in this lisence. Please look up theirs independently.