Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, M22 | HL: Physics, Econ, Chem, Math AA, SL: Eng A Lit, MandarinB, M22 | [subjects]Econs,Psych,Eng L&L HL,German B, Math AA, ESS SL, M22 | [HL: VA, Psych, Eng LL//SL: ESS, Math AI, Hindi]. They are not self-authenticated; they are not their own judges and juries nor is the knowledge they want or discover or build upon exempt from critical ethical examination. Full-text available . share, ethical responsibility still exists - just in an other way as the notion of what our ethical responsibility actually is would change. In recent years I have often quoted DeWitt Stettins counsel, when the flap about DNA flared up. Such gods, being outgrown, have always been cast aside. For illustration we can look instead at the angry debate a few years ago over the risks, and hence the wisdom, of continuing research to master recombinant DNAgene splicing andcloning. In the arts, ethics are a very evident and reoccurring topic of discussion. Only this eschatological outlook could make sense of the moral claim that knowledge is good regardless of the consequences. I have of course constantly insisted that there is no human act which is always wrong or without the possibility of being justified in conceivable circumstances, however rarely or atypically this might be the case. When Dr. Thomas spoke of the atom bomb he meant to suggest, I think, that nuclear power may well prove to be a blessing in the energy shortage now confronting our technological society, but beyond that he was presumably also implying either that the balance of terror in the possession of thermonuclear weaponry by rival superpowers will remain in status quo, or that in any case if first and second strike attacks were unleashed the human and material destruction would stop satisfactorily short of being catastrophic. the ozone layer due to synthetic freon or CFCs(chlorofluorocarbons). Skills dealing with human relationships and interactions are referred to as ___ skills. He asked me if it was true, as he had read in one of my books, that I knew practically nothing about technology or the mathematics of probabilities? Whilst keeping in mind that the world in which we live may not exist in an absolute sense (see TED talk by Wade Davis), we should not resort to moral relativism either. Now at last I have used the language appropriate to any claim that knowledge is good in itself and needs no moral justification. Maybe, just maybe, he thought, a humanist, a nonscientist, might have something worthwhile to say sometimes about technical decisions. What are the most important influences on an individual's perceptions of ethical behavior? Amongst some of the questions you find are: Should some knowledge not be sought on ethical grounds? Mathematicians will probably perk up their ears at this point. And Can new knowledge change values and beliefs? One way is to hold that goodness and badness are intrinsic in things and actions, that they are only variably or relatively acceptable, depending on circumstances. But what about the methods of real life torture? 3. If denied, does this mean one is denying her rights as human Continue reading "11) In your opinion, why is child marriage . In this video I will be breaking down title 6 from the May 2022 TOK essay questions: If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on ethical grounds, how can we. As a first step in the exhibition process, you should choose the IA prompt you will use to connect the three objects to. Trying to lift knowledge beyond good and evil, as religion does gods, is entirely inappropriate. This posture works in religion, it would seem, but scientifically it is absurd. Ergo, find out how to lengthen human lives and damn all (my phrase, not his) to the consequences. This turning to measurementnot only in economics and politics but in ethics as wellis aimed at a careful calculation of relative values and claims in an effort to find a fair balance. Hopefully, once Covid-19 regulations have eased, more visitors from the school community will be able to join the final TOK Exhibition in June 2021. But however that might be, the ethical task of choosing between competing values and competing claimants is a far cry from the indiscriminate absolutism of the I picked this prompt quite arbitrarily and just because I found it interesting, but I've recently seen on this sub-reddit that the ethics topic is highly recommended to not be written about, because it can get touchy, get a bit too far away from TOK concepts, is hard to come meaningful conclusions, and is a difficult topic overall that students struggle to represent correctly. Peter Drucker, the doyen of industrial management consultants, has put it very bluntly. As a first step in the exhibition process, you should choose the IA prompt you will use to connect the three objects to. For example, depictions of human cannibalism. As human beings they may not act without value considerations. The human side or the nonhuman side? Its only real appeal is to a handful of true believers who still wait hungrily and literally for the end of theworld. From a Theory of Knowledge perspective it is easy to see that the knowledge community you belong to strongly influences your perception of morality. Topic: laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of ethical guidance; 11) In your opinion, why is child marriage considered as illegal and unethical? Moltkeplatz 61 + 1 Should some knowledge not be sought on ethical grounds? partnership, on a macro as well as a micro scale, we need the help of mathematics to servejustice. A part of the absolutists case for knowledge is that to question it is, after all, merely academic since we cannot suppress or reject knowledge anyway, even if we wanted to. So much so that the old saying fits, "If you aren't confused you simply don't understand the problem." These thoughts, and others, will be developed here shortly: come back soon! A book has been published, and you are a librarian deciding whether it would be right to purchase this for your library. In the last analysis the case for humanism is pragmatic andtotal. It is often said that religious beliefs have to stand before the bar of ethics, meaning that human beings will not believe in gods that fall short of their developing moral ideals and standards. GOVERNMENT NOTICE! This massive Armageddon would be what theologians call the eschatological event, the last and final state of things, and on that faith ground (fideism) we could, presumably, escape the tyranny of survival, as some have called it. things to avoid, things to consider and some tips and helpful advice for each title). It comes from two Greek words, pro, the preclitic for first or beforehand, and mathein, the verb to think or ponder. But in recent years, more and more scientists have come to question the comfortable notion that science is absolved of responsibility for what is done with theirwork.. grounds on which they reject it have never been fully enough spelledout. ahahha thank you !! Some aspects will link to just one prompt and some may have a closer link to several of the 35 IA prompts. However, there is a more nuanced ethical question: is the pursuit of all scientific knowledge equally worthy? To be coldly rational is to be nave. Reason is indeed essential to creative living and a sine qua non of humanness, but reason is not the whole of our understanding: it has its limitations. Remember that all three (images of) objects should relate to the same prompt. At bottom the question is whether our knowledge is in any significant way subject to or should be conditioned by our value judgments. If the one cannot be absolutized, it might be asked, why should theother? Knowledge, they said in effect, is not sacred, not a mystical holy of holies, untouchable by taboo and thus outside the realm of human choice andcontrol. Whether a thing is good or bad, or an act is right or wrong, would depend on the foreseeable consequences. Thus econometrics was born from the marriage of economics andstatistics. When marine biologists are funded by ocean farmers they are not just scientists; they are agents of the farmers. Second, science in its turn relies a great deal on technology for its apparatus, its research tools. He then went on, In that case we want you to sit on the panel for Teen-agers in high school say, Why not cheat on exams? I'm so confused what is the TOK Exhibit? Boundaries Acceptable investigation Ethical grounds in accordance woth principles of conduct that are considered correct the edge or limit of something, the split between ethical and unethical. It was even more exciting to have a few masked-visitors come to examine their objects and question them on how they related to knowledge. Compare and contrast "morality" and "ethics." Such appeals to ignorance, for such they are, are a spittin image of the old religious argument that the all-powerful Gods ways are mysterious (remember, in William Cowpers Table Talk, God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform) so that what seems to be his indifference to human suffering turns out in the end to be protective love. Rationally we can at most only seek to optimize human well-being as the good. (2) the most effective solution is based on the situation. All attempts to absolutize the relative There are two ways to decide what we ought to do, to judge whether actions are right or wrong. Your email address will not be published. So long as it can be sought by ethical means, that should be the only disqualifier. Truth is out there, truth is merely correspondence with reality. Somebody will be sure to say at this point that if I have any blame to lay about these things it should be put at the door of industry or commerce, not technologys door. The learning partners set up their stations in museum-like fashion in the Learn Atelier of the SY Building and each displayed three objects that they carefully selected. awh nooo, i've also chosen this as my IA prompt and am also looking for a 3rd object ahah but i've just seen this post TT hopefully we still get decent grades for choosing these prompts ahh goodluck dudeee. At best we can only hope for a finite success in fairly distributing benefits. In biotechnology, for example, science is obviously the vera causa. This is the unofficial subreddit for all things concerning the International Baccalaureate, an academic credential accorded to secondary students from around the world after two vigorous years of study, culminating in challenging exams. There are some who say this, especially in the science-orientedpursuits. It is a very simplistic kind of reasoning, and illogical, to suppose as some scientists do that since data In the eyes of a great many sophisticated and concerned members of the public, science and technology are tied together by their consequences and share in each others praise or blame. As responsible moral agents they looked carefully at the probable consequences before they proceeded. How can I say it so positively? If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on: If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on ethical grounds, how can we determine the boundaries of acceptable investigation within an area of knowledge? As parties (if not accomplices) do they not share whatever blame or moral culpability might attach to marketedproducts? TOK Exhibition is probably the most important addition. In answer to a question from the audience he drove his point home by saying, I know of no scientific discovery for which we have any cause to regret, not even the atom bomb. This could only mean, plainly and affirmatively stated, that we ought to seek any and all knowledge regardless of the consequences. What constraints are there on the pursuit of knowledge? His position was a simple one, not to say oversimple. It all depends on the circumstances. The same thing applies to industrial researchers, for example in pharmaceuticals. Reading the 35 IA prompts one at a time can be time consuming, but that's the only best way to know the concept behind each question as it relates to the Theory of Knowledge. I would say no. For pessimists this belief leads to apocalyptic prophecies and scenarios of mans doom, while for optimists it ends complacently in a Jules Verne expectation of endless technicalvictories. Before I go any further, then, I should plainly state the premise from which I approach questions of the public interest or, in a less politically flavored phrase, the social good. Science-based. Ethics involves a discussion of the way we ought to live our lives, the distinctions between right and wrong, the justification of moral . such an ethically sensitive subject? This, surely, is only an assumption, and as a universal reassurance it ends up being Pollyanna and dubious. To use the current phrase, This is where I come from, I should say candidly that I am a consequentialist and a humanist. The chosen object allows students to discuss the point of view, not in isolation, but as a whole. We have all heard people say, Dont give me any ifs, ands, or buts, or maybes; a thing is either right or it isnt right. There are those who on this model say that scientific knowledge is good in itself, or that a technological innovation based on it is right because the product is in and of itself valuablenot just relative to other values or by reasons of its effects. The first thing to be said about this, obviously, is that it violates the consequential principle. For example, ethical responsibility in this case would be whether one should protect society from dangerous truths. 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Remember that all three (images of) objects should relate to the same prompt. It is true, I suppose, that in a religious world view the human race could survive its extinction. I recalled that he had also declared that we ought never to say there are things which human beings can get along happily without knowing. The purpose of this short essay is to introduce this alternative notion of ethics, a conception that is rooted in planned action over the life of a career and based in the goals of the individual actor in their organizational context. As a value assertion this was both moralistic and absolutistic. For a very simple and sufficient reason. Consider, for example, a person who wants to learn how to teach people. in order to guard against bias. Data or facts are in some legitimate sense value free. But scientistsa word which literally means seekers of knowledgeare human beings and therefore moral agents. To create the exhibition you should follow three steps: 1) Choose the IA prompt and (images of) objects, 2) Prepare the documents for moderation 3) Showcase the exhibition. So the lineruns. AnredeHerrFrau SonstigesEarly YearsPrimary YearsSecondary YearsAufnahmeFrderverein He asks, Is there such a thing as socially responsible science? The health of consumers and the general public has often been undermined by new technologies, allowing, for example, emissions to enter into the environment to pollute the soil, the water, and the air. Surely social ethics (that is, value considerations on the public or macroethical scale) has every reason to be center stage. If a 15 year old girl wants to marry a person whom she loves, shouldn't she be allowed that choice? What about editorial cartoons? Note that the subreddit is not run by the International Baccalaureate. We can say we wont inquire across our present boundaries of knowledge at this point or that but there is always somebody who will, and even if we tried to shut the door on something we disliked wed stumble across it anyway as we run down some other road. Science and technology are tied together in two ways. I recall a scientific friend once waxing rhetorical and saying, We are, for good or ill, caught up in extrapolations of what we know, and there is no stopping or turning back. It was the scientists themselves who called a halt, not the hysterics who were crying havoc if they went ahead. I suspect it is an assumption born out of the familiar mechanism we call wish-thinking. My exhibition focused mostly on three ethical schools of thought - utilitarianism, deontological ethics and hedonism. Today, it would be unheard of to seek grant funding for research into the relative IQs of the different races, regardless of the expected result. The Limits to the Investigate Tion Are a series of principles and rules that prevent the use of science to the detriment of the human being or the environment. Moreover, many top people in the scientific community refuse to accept it no matter what hard numbers its protagonists use to establish when the catastrophe range would bereached. Im pretty sure you can find all you want to know on Google, but perhaps in the future it will be made illegal to publish the information, in case it is used by terrorists. Seeking to know how to induce hatred of people, indiscriminate and irreversible hatred (that is, sociopathy or misanthropy), would be wrong. Boundaries: ethical guidelines, pressure imposed on by leading parties like governments, the law and religion. The public, for which (or whom) I am an entirely unauthorized spokesman in this discussion, is perfectly familiar and I might add increasingly upset by the stories of events such as the Russian nuclear reactors breakdown in the power plant at Chernobyl, and the near thing earlier at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the toxic waste scandals of the Valley of the Drums in Kentucky and Love Canal in Buffalo, Adirondack and Canadian lake fish dead of acid rain from hypered col burners in the Midwest, cattle wiped out in Michigan by PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls), or the possibility (probability?) The best place on the human body to put the electrodes, for example, how to judge the precise current to use, depending on ones perception of the subjects reaction? 1 The etymology of inchoo seems to point towards the Greek ' ,' 'make an incision, slit somet ; 7 In doing so, pragmatism sets itself apart not only from objectivistic approaches in social philosophy, but also from deontological ethics in the tradition of Kant. Is there such a thing as forbidden knowledge, such a thing as undesirable inquiry? Historians often remind us that economics as a discipline came out of what 17th-century people such as William Petty and Dudley North called political arithmetick. They called it that because they were faced with the perennial problem of distributive justice, the allocation of social resources, and they realized they had to have some hard numbers to work with when they were ranking and ordering things according to their consensual values. George Santayana remarked on this as a curious anomaly in his Life of Reason as long ago as 1905, the year I wasborn. OTA existed precisely because Congress felt research and innovations ought to be conditioned on the public interest, that facts and values should be taken into account together. But was it? Step 1: choose the IA prompt and look for three objects. This is why mathematics or measurement is so important in distributive justice and so essential to just legislation. info@is-ruhr.de, Primary School Primary Years (Klasse 1 5), Secondary School Secondary Years (Klasse 6 12). Milgram experiment This subreddit encourages questions, constructive feedback, and the sharing of knowledge and resources among IB students, alumni, and teachers. We can dispense with names. TOK therefore develops higher order critical thinking skills, asking students to step outside their academic subjects and consider them from a metacognitive perspective, coming to an understanding of their scope, underlying methodology, limitations and wider ethical dimension. Perhaps my imagination is just not good enough to come up with an example where it would be ethically wrong, in principle, to enquire, to seek out, to view some work of art by virtue of its content, leaving aside the cases I have discussed. In this kind of rhetoric terrible tragedies, cosmic or natural disasters, like epidemics and earthquakes, and heartbreaking cases of innocent suffering and death due to accidents or disease, are really all to the good, and we should know it if only we could share in Gods infinite knowledge. It's been quite a roller coaster for students who have opted for the TOK (Theory Of Knowledge) Diploma Programme, with the new syllabus introduced in August 2020. 6. Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge. This essay examines thatweb. Both releasing information and concealment of specific facts can have severe outcomes for those who hold this knowledge, as well as for other individuals who depend on this information. However, one could imagine much worse. We're made to choose 3 objects/real-life situations of our choice to together answer 1 out of 35 IA prompts of our choice, within either the core theme (knowledge and the knower) or the optional themes (knowledge and technology, knowledge and language). That is not the only thing I value, but I value it enough to despise those who would limit freedom on the grounds that its best/ safest/ more ethical not to know. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Turkish tea, a lensball, a family photograph and a solar panel driven miniature Albert Einstein were a few of the objects that the learning partners chose to display. Article. 18. document.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In the classical language of moral philosophy and jurisprudence we would say it is aimed at distributive justice. This philosophical profile should help readers to correct for whatever they think is my bias. No To a great extent IB has changed my thinking. It all depends on the circumstances. He pointed out that when risk-benefit questions are problematic, as they often are, there are two eminently sensible indicators, without which a ban on research would not be justified. The Open Question Argument and its Aftermath: Moore's Influence on Russell. As in the presentation? In recent times has reached such an advance that . Taking photographs of someone being tortured, would be one example. What can an object tell you about the way knowledge is produced, acquired and interpreted? The word 'ethics' comes from the Greek word 'ethos', meaning custom or behaviour. It was Paul Berg and his fellow microbiologists who called for a moratorium on their own work, and they did it as scientists because they were consequentialists and humane. need numeracy as well as literacy, to use a phrase coined by Garrett Hardin in his Filters against Folly. You either buy it all or hide cowering in thecaves.. Copyright 2022 The Virginia Quarterly Review. Twenty years ago there was a flurry of interest in learning how to extend the human life span by some such means as genetics or biochemistry. Has anyone done the same and received a decent grade? The theme assists students in establishing links and connections with the object. Their moratorium was by no means merely a dishonest pose, as some anti-scientism agitatorscharged. On this formalistic ground sterilization, to take an illustration at random from sex ethics, is said by some to be wrong, categorically wrong, regardless of any clinical reasons for it in a particularcase. Overall, do you think centering my exhibition on ethics is fine? (1) you cannot rely on one best way. Science and technology are partners in a process which can lead to evil as well as good consequences for human beings. It is that the survival of our species, Homo sapiens, is the necessary and indispensable prerequisite to the whole human enterprise, including both the sciences and humanities. Thoughtful people could easily enough make the listlonger. Answer (1 of 11): Should some knowledge not be sought on ethical grounds? Understanding TOK as a methodology is very important, for it establishes the concurrency of learning with other IB courses. Taking photographs of someone being tortured, would be one example. Along with their notion that everything that can be known ought to be known goes the notion that everybody should know it or at least be allowed to. Step 1: choose the IA prompt and look for three objects. You have read 1 of 10 free articles in the past 30 days. Nonetheless, although business and technology are not coterminous they have become symbiotic functionally. A paradigm for the complexity of the problem comes out of my own personal experience. I recall a few decades ago, when student protests were an almost weekly occurrence, the demonstrations demanding the resignation of the psychologist Hans Eysenck, Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London for his claim that the IQ of infants varies with race. Science should always be used to improve society And promote knowledge. The belief behind this is that the proliferation of learning is inevitable and unbounded, except for whatever limits to it are given per naturam, since mans powers of cognition are at best only finite. There is, however, another symbiosis here. large. Notwithstanding these qualifications, we believe that the onus should be on authors to explain why they have not sought and/or obtained ethics approval and the default position should be that such research is not published even if this means losing opportunities to disseminate information. Ethics Question - Standard I(B) and IV(C), Im sorry but how has no one made a meme with this text book. Humanists, to be sure, Up to this point what has been said can be summed up in three propositions. For this exhibition, the TOK prompt I chose was "Should some knowledge not be sought on ethical grounds? It was . Are there any limiting principles relevant when we seek to know things of which we are ignorant? Or does ethical error only come in when the answers are collated? Here we may have a key of vital importance. Tim has made a full, May 2022 TOK Essay Titles Analysis, which you can watch inside IBMastery. The interests of humankind are the summum bonum or highest good, and all other values aresubtended. If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on ethical grounds, how can we determine the boundaries of acceptable investigation within an area of knowledge? It showed the readiness of top-flight scientists to deny by their own initiative that knowledge is an absolute good. That is because I value human freedom. Each would be crippled without the other; each in its own way is a symbiont. Founder member of the International Society for Philosophers (ISFP) View all posts by Geoffrey Klempner. I have coined the term ethimetrics for the task of consequential reasoning combined with measured values, as the way to approach problems of justice and relativity in our modern rapid transport, mass society of science andtechnology. This linguistic understanding of the term makes it the key to the virtue of prudence, a consideration of the consequences in moraljudgments. To be promethean means literally to act with forethought, to think ahead, to consider consequences. When science turns religious, it turnssour. That was consequential thinking. Once moral responsibility ceases to be a simplistic adherence to prefabricated rules based on the notion of intrinsic right and wrong, turning instead to consequences, the ethical problem becomes one of measurementof having to quantify qualities, so to speak, in order to weigh them against each other. There are also agreed standards of proof and argument that are different in each Area of . 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