A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF
INTERSTELLAR: ETHICS
HARRISON SEABORN YEAR 9 PHILOSOPHY (MR. SINGH)
BACKGROUND
SYNOPSIS
KEY QUESTIONS
SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS SLIDES
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Interstellar – a blockbuster film, directed by Christopher Nolan
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It is set sometime in the 2050’s
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A crop blight has hit the earth, and starvation and suffocation have started to set in
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Key questions
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Ethics
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Professor Brand – Duty Ethics
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‘Them’ – Artificial Selection
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Dr Mann – Survival Ethics
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Science
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Miller’s Planet – Time Dilation
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Cooper – Surviving a Black Hole
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Cooper – Transmitting Data from inside a Black Hole
KEY PERSONALITIES, AND FIELDS
IMMANUEL KANT
DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS
CHARLES DARWIN
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION –
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
SELECTION
SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS SLIDES
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Immanuel Kant – German philosopher who was the main founder of Deontology
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Deontology – bases the morality of an action on whether it abides to a set of rules
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Charles Darwin – English scientist/philosopher who was the main founder of the theory of
Evolution
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Artificial Selection – the choosing of desirable traits by an outside source other than the organism itself
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Natural Selection – acts to preserve and accumulate minor advantageous genetic mutations
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Survival Ethics – bases the morality of an action on whether it extends the lifespan of the individual
PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND
INTERSTELLAR
FAULTS IN INTERSTELLAR
TIME DILATION – MILLERS PLANET
SURVIVING A BLACK HOLE
COMMUNICATING FROM A BLACK HOLE
CONCLUSIO
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HOW INTERSTELLAR RELATES TO OUR
WORLD, NOW?
REFLECTION
REFERENCE LIST (1 SLIDE)
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• D'Souza, W. (2014). Interstellar Plot Summary. Retrieved from IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ql_6
• Jayan, H. K. (2014, November 8). Who are 'they' in Interstellar? Are there aliens? Retrieved from Quora: http://www.quora.com/Who-are-they-in-Interstellar-Arethere-aliens
• Kluger, J. (2014, November 7). What Interstellar got Right and Wrong about Science. Retrieved from Time: http://time.com/3572988/interstellar-science-fact-check/
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