Here are some of the questions raised in class today that I think are important:
- What is the nature of the “entitlement” we have to our own opinions? What level of responsibility do we have to ourselves or others for our opinions? How open do we need to be to truth—and therefore to reasons that might lead us toward truth, on matters religious, ethical, political, or philosophical, which are not subject to a scientific or factual method of determination?
- What are the kinds of things we need to form our own opinions on? How do we form “our own” opinions? And as above, are we “entitled” simply not to have ‘our own’ opinions on various subjects (e.g. religion, philosophy, ethics, politics, art, etc.)?
- Is it always wrong to break the law? Or is it sometimes “right” to break the law, and might we have a duty to do so? How do we know which is which? (Bonnie’s argument at the end was yes, it is always wrong. Socrates in the Crito suggests there is a set of conditions which make breaking the law wrong.)
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