Next time:
- review for Exam 1
- discuss another article about childhood
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Recap: Tomlin's Puzzles about Erin and Dane
- Is Erin harmed?
- Is Dane harmed?
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Tomlin's answer, part (1): The caterpillar view
Tomlin p. 40
- Caterpillars and butterflies are "fundamentally different kinds of things, with different lives and different goods"
- Only two things of the same basic kind can be compared (the Type of being condition--p. 41)
- Therefore, we can't say that a caterpillar is harmed or benefitted by becoming a butterfly
- Likewise, children and adults are "fundamentally different kinds of things, with different lives and different goods."
- Therefore,
- we can't say that Erin is benefitted or harmed by staying a child forever.
- and we can't say Dane is benefitted or harmed by becoming an adult sooner than usual.
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How caterpillars change into butterflies
Is the butterfly just a different organism? It might matter whether butterflies remember anything from their lives as caterpillars. Oddly enough, they do.
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Children and adults have "different lives and different goods"
- Normative stageism -- different goods/bads for different stages of life
- Will there be a separate norm for old age....he doesn't say so .... we'll explore in module 4
- indigenous stage theories (Arnett)
This picture contrasts with....
- Hedonism
- Objective list theory -- one list of goods/bads for all humans
- Enhanced objective list theory -- one list of goods/bads for all humans, but should add goods of childhood
What does Tomlin say about the specific goods that define child or adult wellbeing?
- (section 6, not assigned)
Adulthood wellbeing
- goods: being autonomous
- bads: being dominated, being interfered with
Childhood wellbeing
- goods: ______________
- bads: ______________
Next time: we'll talk some more about the goods that belong ONLY on the childhood list
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Back to the puzzle of Erin and Dane
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Tomlin's solution part (1)
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| Tomlin p. 41 |
Tomlin's solution part (2) -- we'll read section 8
Bottom line--
- Because of part (2), it's wrong to give Erin the pill
- But is it wrong to give Dane the pill?
WORKBOOK (if time)
