Sunday, December 14, 2014

Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison

http://www.ted.com/talks/damon_horowitz_philosophy_in_prison?language=en#t-61267

     In Damon Horowitz Ted talk he discusses about a student from a state university one day taking a gun and flashing it by killing someone. Now he is charge with a felony in jail for life for 25 years or so. Now in prison teaching a course on the foundations of Ethics. Tony says what are you going to teach me about right and wrong. Where I know and I have done only wrong. I am told everyday by every face who cross path by me that I am wrong and by the wall especially in a prison cell. There will always be a mark by my name in what I have done or committed to myself in my felony. It is said that I'm a convict that I am granted wrong  in what I have done, what you are telling me about right and and wrong. But by his professor in this prison university he says in a calm voice its worse than you actually think Tony and you think you know right or wrong. Also, thinking what wrong really is, I want to know the wrongness of wrong itself. It is the idea of wrong and doing wrong. What makes something wrong and how it is actually wrong. Maybe one is wrong about the wrong. We are here for knowledge, and I am tired of being so wrong all the time. I want to know what I know. The project of questioning in what we believe in, and why we believe it. I'm not a professor or a teacher who is teaching the student. I'm not a professor and student but it is two minds that is ready to solve and question the power of using the essential tools of philosophy. I believe this connects back to sociology because it studies what happened to Tony in the incident where it shows his mental development when he did something wrong. Also, it shows that everyone is wrong in their own way like myself for instance no one will ever be perfect, even though you still practice and so close to be perfect. But there will be mistakes that are not so obvious for your eyes to catch, where it shows that being wrong is a good thing where there are different level of the wrongness.

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