This EFL / CLIL lesson was written to encourage my students to talk about, instead of just read about philosophy. It contains three short situations that the students stop and discuss before reaching a final conclusion. hope you enjoy it!

1. Talking
Philosophy
A lesson by Seth Dickens.
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11. Talking Philosophy
Is it okay to kill Davide
painlessly if his organs will
save the lives of all the
others.

22. Talking Philosophy
•Should you kill one person to
save the other students?
•If in this story you should kill
one to save three, why not in
the previous, medical story?

23. You work in
a railway
junction
box. It’s a
nice quiet
job

24. Today there
are men
working on
the rails

25. Suddenly you hear a
voice from the radio.

30. •Will you turn the
train to the left and
kill one man?
•Or leave it on the
right and kill three?

31. Talking Philosophy
•Would you turn the train or
leave it on the same track?
•If you turn the train,
shouldn’t you kill the hostage
and kill Davide?
•Isn’t “The right thing to do”
the same in every situation?

32. Immanuel Kant
quot;Act only according to that
maxim whereby you can at
the same time will that it
should become a universal
law.“
You should always do “the
right thing to do” in every
single situation. It should
always be the same.

33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilatostes/2431033659/
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35. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeontheedge/416514144/
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Immanuel_Kant_(painted_portrait).jpg
This lesson was Inspired by the BBC article “Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7739493.stm