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Elsa, PhD.
Controversial Knowledge,
Powerful Speaking.
Topics: Cultural diversity issues,
core issues in ethics,
critical thinking, education.
Each age has different controversial knowledge, controversial issues. Centuries ago the most controversial issue was about the earth: was it flat or round? It's easy to think that we've progressed. But at present we have at least equally hot topics that can set off charges of racism against people who are totally anti-racist.
For example, in regards to cultural diversity issues, if one does not uphold the equality of all cultures, one had better be prepared to be labeled a bigot or racist - when the issue has nothing to do with race or even bigotry. Core issues in ethics have to do with considering and evaluating different ethical standards, not to come to a rigid universal ethics, but to come to some understanding of what is required to lead to human flourishing, and what diminishes this.
So ethics must be able to deal with issues like the need for adequate food and water, ready access to education that fosters critical thinking and also supplies lots of knowledge, safety to explore ideas and freedom of speech as long as one does not call for the harm of others.
All opinions will not be equal, nor will all cultures and religions. This is so apparent to people when looking at the Greek gods, some of whom felt free to indulge in, for example, rape. It was also apparent when people, after World War 2, looked at the Holocaust. But this is far from apparent to people when looking at current religions and cultures.
Here, an exploration of controversial knowledge that, in my childhood, would not have been controversial: the existence of universal ethics, and the importance of looking at and evaluating facts.
Elsa, PhD
To go from the overview of these videos
on current controversial knowledge,
especially relating to cultural diversity issues,
to an article on universal ethics, click here
To go from the overview of these videos
controversial knowledge
to the youtube video
on universal ethics, click here
Here, a teleseminar series -
interviews with 20 people
who are exploring the West and Islam,
and speaking out about their findings.
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PARTICIPANTS
Robert Spencer
Bill Warner
Jonathan
Hausman
Narain Kataria
Elaine Black
Chris Logan
Andrew Harrod
Tamar Yonah
2012-2013
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