ToK Journal #29
by zPrevious Student, on April 24th, 2011
On Monday, we had Masami, Jane and Aaron’s presentations. Masami’s presentation is about ethical decisions people make every day. Knowledge issue and way of knowing is well related in her presentation. Jane’s has interesting topic “Man vs. Nature”. She used sound clip as background information though I was little bit distracted while listening. The euthanasia or abortion is really typical examples when we talk about ethical issues, but also it’s hard to decide which one is right easily. These real life situations were all for asking if people have right to decide like a god. To me, I’m more on the support side of abortion or euthanasia. It’s always make trouble with ethics as it’s related to one life’s death, but I think people should be able to choose. I know abortion is killing a baby before it even starts its life, and euthanasia is killing a person without his/her own opinion. Every life should be treated as equal but circumstance should be always considered. Well, I’m not sure. I’ve always thought making an organization or something for considering the situation of the family rather than just saying for or against of ethical issues, because it’s always different. Next was Aaron’s, about revolution or rebellion. It was interesting that I haven’t thought about that before though it is related to recent social issues. Personally I liked his ppt with photos. It was good to recognize what he’s going to talk about.
On Thursday, Mr. Macknight talked about stage of ToK and Zi did his oral presentation. The point of what Mr. Macknight said is we should try to reach stage 4 of ToK rather than just staying around stage 3. Stage 4 is being able to explain my opinion, aware of opposing view. This makes me change little bit of direction of my presentation. After that, Zi decided to go on his presentation bravely. His presentation was fun  The ppt gives content + fun, and especially, the best lasagne EVER kept in my mind till Friday lunch time… I begin to feel hungry again!!! ):
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Important Dates Y12 Orals: May 22, May 31, June 5, June 7.
June 11: Y12 TOK Day
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"The arts, ideas, natural beauty, and good conversation provide lasting pleasure."
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"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it."
—Werner Vogels
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Is TOK a Philosophy Course? YES, in the sense that the name of the course itself is in any dictionary effectively synonymous with "epistemology."
NO, in the sense that IB-specific ToK has many philosophical elements, but is not just philosophy. ToK is at root an interdiscipinary course that allows students to become aware of how the six subject-groups on the corners on the Diploma hexagon overlap and integrate. The interdisciplinary aspect is the crucial thing . . . .
—Bruce Bartlett
Le Collège français
Toronto, Canada
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
—Steven Wright
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Webs & Chains Natura in reticulum sua genera connexit,
non in catenam: homines non possunt nisi
catenam sequi, cum non plura simul
possint sermone exponere.
Nature knits up her kinds in a network, not
in a chain; but men can follow only by
chains because their language can’t handle
several things at once.
—Albrecht von Haller (tr. Howard Nemerov)
[Epigraph to Nemerov's poem, "The Dependencies"]
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