Year 8 Miracles
Identify the various views about miracles especially religious and scientific. Establish how important it is to believe the absolute miraculous truth, an essence of meaning or not believe at all.
1.What is a miracle?
Can you think of a definition?
Can you think of a definition?
This is the dictionary definition.
miracle
miracle
noun
- an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.
2. What is 'real'?
Perhaps we had better establish what 'real' actually is! Plato had a view.
Perhaps we had better establish what 'real' actually is! Plato had a view.
3. Biblical Miracles
CLIP: THE PARALYSED MAN
Task: Can you retell the story of the healing of the paralysed man
You must include the words 'blasphemous', 'faith' and 'authority'?
Task: Can you retell the story of the healing of the paralysed man
You must include the words 'blasphemous', 'faith' and 'authority'?
4. Pilgrimages
CLIP: THE ROUGH GUIDE TO MIRACLES AND PILGRIMAGES
Pilgrimage in the news - why did it go wrong?
Task: Can you answer questions about pilgrimages, and especially Christian ones?
5. The Telekinetic Teacher
Can you make something move without touching it?
How might you define movement?
How might you define movement?
What kind of movement is going on in this picture?
Task: write up the experiments we have conducted in class
6. More Biblical Miracles
Can you list the main miracle stories in the Bible?
Here are the Bible references. Find the stories in your Bibles, ready to report back on what they are:
Matthew 14
John 6
Matthew 14
John 6
7. Humanism
What do these people have in common?
Reality, Perceptions and Definitions
Warm up: "The Maybe Box" someone was asked to put two biscuits in a box, what's in the box?
There is no one around to hear the rockslide, so does the rockslide make any sound?
Reality
*There is no one around to see the rockslide, so does that mean that the rockslide didn't happen
* Is sound something that happens independently of our minds?
Definitions
* what is sound?
* what is noise?
Perception
* Does sound require interpretation?
* What makes sound different from noise?
Can you answer the question: is noise or sound subjective?
Task:
Compete two columns, one which contains what you would consider to be noise and one which contains what you would consider to be sound.
DOCUMENT: Worksheet
DOCUMENT: Worksheet
Compare with a friend ................ are there similarities in your choices?
Is your perception of noise or sound different to others?
The Title is:
"Miracles happen and they have a positive effect on society"
Now for the Big Question! Based on notes taken in our discussion of the reality of miracles you need to construct an argument taking two points of view and finishing with your own concluding view. Remember to be Philosophy Bear and not Pinkerton.
The Title is:
"Miracles happen and they have a positive effect on society"
The Christmas Story - The Greatest Miracle Of All
REVISION NOTES
SESSION 1
Forgiveness
An opener!!!!!!!
This is your script. If you are asking the question you may only say these things ......
Do you think it is right to let someone die if they ask you to?
Why?
Have you anything more to add to that?
What is it worse to do? "letting someone walk down a lift shaft?"
Can a war criminal change? Are there somethings that should not be forgiven? Holocaust.
Can a war criminal change? - Court Scene
Have you anything more to add to that?
What is it worse to do? "letting someone walk down a lift shaft?"
Can a war criminal change? Are there somethings that should not be forgiven? Holocaust.
Can a war criminal change? - Court Scene
SESSION 4
Euthanasia
Matters of Life and Death in Five minutes
Other Religions' Attitudes to death
CLIP: HOW ATTITUDES TO DEATH DIFFER
SESSION 5
Assessment
SOLUTIONS
What are the problems which have caused conflict in North Korea, France, Egypt, etc.?
Here is a story of a struggle which has nearly ended, the armed struggle anyway. Are there lessons which can be learned from how it ended?
Clip: ETA the end of a struggle?
Clip: BBC ETA
The Basque story; Al Jazeera
Relate the cessation of fighting to the potential of conflict and see how we might apply lessons learned.
Here are some scenarios which will test your ability to inform your own problem-solving strategies. I don't want answers, I want you to consider what the problems embedded in the dilemmas are. They may be ethical, strategic, logistical, philosophical ........ Use you knowledge of problem-solving to identify what you need to take into consideration.
Let's start with the evacuation to Mars. here's a clue: It's a bit like a balloon debate, who would you keep and why. There is of course, a twist!
Your Final Challenge! Your part in saving the world.
Here are some scenarios which will test your ability to inform your own problem-solving strategies. I don't want answers, I want you to consider what the problems embedded in the dilemmas are. They may be ethical, strategic, logistical, philosophical ........ Use you knowledge of problem-solving to identify what you need to take into consideration.
Let's start with the evacuation to Mars. here's a clue: It's a bit like a balloon debate, who would you keep and why. There is of course, a twist!
