Mi clase C estrella
Nivel C1
Duración: 105 min.
Objetivos: la clase se centrará alrededor de un video de TED Talks titulado “Science can
answer moral questions” llevado a cabo por Sam Harris. Lo que se pretende con esta
tarea es que los alumnos sean capaces de argumentar sus ideas de manera organizada y
fluida.
Para empezar y animar la clase, los alumnos tendrán que comentar como piensan
ellos que se deberían tomar las decisiones morales contestando a las siguientes
preguntas:
How do you make your own moral decisions? Does religion help you? Do you feel like
you make them independently?
Is morality objective? Do you think this causes problems? If it isn’t, then how should
we decide what is right and wrong?
Do you think that this kind of discussion is useless? Is it more useful to just live without
over-analyzing our ethics?
Después de este “calentamiento”, se reproducirá el video y los alumnos tomarán
notas. Acto seguido, contestarán si las siguientes declaraciones son verdaderas o
falsas.
1. Harris says that values are a certain kind of fact. They are facts about the conscious
wellbeing of living things.
2. He argues that all systems of ethics can be reduced to a concern about conscious
experience and suffering.
3. He believes that religion is the best source for our morality, and we should base our
decisions on its teachings.
4. Harris claims that every society exists on a moral continuum between bad and good,
and that they can move and change.
5. Part of his argument is that our brains are the least important factor in shaping our
personalities and experiences.