Mr. Kuykendall's online classroom
In our study of Reason, we discussed its reliability as a way of knowing and the degree to which Western intellectual thought (and Reason as a whole) owes much to Socrates and Plato. Thus, we’re going to take the time to read one of Plato’s …
After our conversations yesterday, I immediately thought of the short story, “Ones who walk away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin. Read the story linked here: ones who walk away from omelas And then answer the following questions in your journal as “journal entry #3”: …
In this course, a goal of ours will be to nurture within you the ability to look at all truth claims with a critical eye. This does not mean that my goal is to turn you into a perpetual contrarian as some believe is occurring: …
This is what TOK is all about…this post. When the average person reads the follwing interview with Jaden and Willow Smith, they come away thinking, “Wow. psycho.” I’m not saying that emotional response isn’t valid, nor am i saying it’s valid. What I am suggesting …
ISIS is horrible. The Islamic State is horribly intolerant, violent, and oppressive. There is no doubting this unless you are a fellow Islamic extremist. Read this EXCELLENT primer on ISIS by Graeme Wood from The Atlantic (world’s greatest magazine) below: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ Further Interesting and relevant …
You’re all required to fill out the following form for the presentation, it’s a fillable PDF: Theory_of_knowledge_Presentation form to fill out NEW
The 2015 Titles are Here and Copied Below!! But before you get writing, you gotta get unpacking! Use the document linked below, above the titles, to work to unpack one of the questions below! I will assign you to a question! Unpacking the 2015 Titles …
As an introduction to ETHICS, move through this incredibly excellent introduction to ethics, ethical hypocrisy, kantian ethics and utilitarianism: http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/fatman/Default.aspx One of the heaviest hitters in the philosophical world of ethics is German Philosopher Emanuel Kant. Kant wrote at length on a variety of topics and …
We’ve already discussed various questions that the Human Sciences concern themselves with. We discussed that many of these questions are “Normative” in nature…meaning they concern themselves with what humans OUGHT to do. Dilemmas of behavior that people face are referred to as MORAL DILEMMAS or …
“From Big Bang to Little Swish” Read this article and highlight via Diigo app! This is an intro to expansionary theory–the latest theory regarding the origins of the universe. We’ll delve much deeper into this topic later! But some important knowledge questions to consider are: …