{"id":784,"date":"2008-03-03T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2008\/03\/03\/queen-elizabeths-mercian-school-visit-ethics"},"modified":"2008-03-03T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:52:00","slug":"queen-elizabeths-mercian-school-visit-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2008\/03\/03\/queen-elizabeths-mercian-school-visit-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Mercian School Visit &#8211; Ethics.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qems.org.uk\/files\/images\/tour\/001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qems.org.uk\/files\/images\/tour\/001.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>Last friday [29th Feb] I headed up the delightful M5 and M42 to <a id=\"sitename\" title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qems.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Mercian School<\/a> to talk to Years 11, 12 and 13 (in varying quantities) about various things.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>We began with arguments for the existence of God &#8211; mainly the Ontological argument. Some suspected I was playing some kind of theological conuring trick &#8211; defining things into existence (and treating existence as a predicate) &#8211; maybe they were right&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>See <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/ontological-arguments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/ontological-arguments\/<\/a> for more on God as a necessary being. We also spoke about the Cosmological argument &#8211; and the idea of an unmoved mover&#8230; Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatreligiousstudieswebsite.com\/Articles\/Philosophy_of_religion\/God\/cosmological_main.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE <\/a>for more on that topic..<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>After lunch, we talked about ethics in general, and dilemmas &#8211; such as those at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4954856.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4954856.stm<\/a> &#8211; and more real life ones such as at <a href=\"http:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/greatergood\/archive\/2006springsummer\/halberstam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/greatergood\/archive\/2006springsummer\/halberstam.html<\/a> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>I had a good time &#8211; and hope the session were useful &#8211; be glad to be back soon.<\/div>\n<div>Cheers,<\/div>\n<div>Dave<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last friday [29th Feb] I headed up the delightful M5 and M42 to Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Mercian School to talk to Years 11, 12 and 13 (in varying quantities) about various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,111,185,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-level-religious-studies","category-god","category-ontological","category-philosophy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}