{"id":963,"date":"2006-12-05T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2006\/12\/05\/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas"},"modified":"2006-12-05T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T14:50:00","slug":"the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2006\/12\/05\/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"},"content":{"rendered":"

See update at: <\/span>http:\/\/r-p-e.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/ethics-in-ones-who-walk-away-from.html<\/span><\/a> as well…<\/span> – esp for discussion of the story in more detail..<\/p>\n

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Note: If you are a student looking at this to help with a paper\/essay on the Omelas short story – that is great, we hope something here helps – but be sure to give a reference – and send me and e-mail to let me know if you find the material useful.. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dave W: dwebster@glos.ac.uk<\/a>
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In the RPE101 (Philosophical and Ethical Arguing)<\/a> class today, we talked about the Ursula Le Guin short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas – as a focus for concerns about Utilitarianism <\/a>and responsibility…<\/p>\n

There is a wikipedia piece at http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_From_Omelas<\/a> – which explains the story – but also see the essay at http:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/~etiffany\/teaching\/phil120\/omelas1_120.html<\/a> – whose conclusions I am not convinced by: but ask yourself the questions<\/p>\n

1 – Would you stay in the city – knowing your happiness was at the expense of a suffering child?<\/p>\n

2 – Do we not anyway enjoy an easy life at the direct expense of others in the developing world already? Are we not just at guilty as the Omelas-people who choose to stay?<\/p>\n

responses welcome…
Dave <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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