talking to the other side - lesson plan
- If God came down and said you gotta change someone’s mind, what would you do?
- Break down the fat man problem
- Break down the dying violinist experiment
- Discuss the moral matrices. What moral matrices affect you. What affect other people? How would you argue for food stamps, trans rights, environmentalism, universal healthcare
- Care
- Fairness
- Liberty
- Loyalty
- Authority
- Purity
- Should you throw a jab at people?
Changing hearts and minds
There are people out there who, for some reason, don’t spend their Saturday nights reading obscure philosophy texts. If you can’t throw 500 pages of Hegel at someone to change their mind, how the heck are you supposed to do it? This week we’ll be discussing colloquial philosophy: The sort of structured-but-not-really-structured arguments people make in everyday life. In addition, we’ll pull on Haidt’s theories of moral intuitionism to understand the psychological and societal bases for how people form and change their minds on foundational things.
