This week’s @lesleyriddoch podcast is the one where we mention Borgen for the last time, for a while or at least until series 3 starts. We all went along to see Sidse Babett Knudsen at the Filmhouse on Sunday after the Monday Scotsman column had been filed. It was a fascinating Q&A session. But what does it mean?
Equally, after an interesting TV discussion about ‘Bedroom Tax’; we ponder what the Scottish Government could do ; especially in the light of Mike Dailly’s petition. Just when you might think this is new ‘news’; Lesley recalls a ‘Comment Is Free’ piece ; “How will social housing survive Tory cuts?” from June 2010.
Finally, notwithstanding twists, turns and texts, there’s been a resignation. Really. It’s all go this week.
Not so much ‘Trust Creation’ as ‘Ethics Resurrection’.
One could say the ethics went down the drain when Christianity went out of the window.
But Not True most of Christian ethics followed from the Greeks 300 years before.
Socrates took the hemlock because he wouldn’t submit to the politics at the time and Aristotle’s ethics are still the basis of Michael Sandel’s courses on Justice at Harvard. And it’s far from just teaching he gets real student participation.
You can see his courses at http://www.justiceharvard.org/watch/
The only point is that many of the Harvard students and those from the other great universities pour their ethics down the drain on graduating.
Posted by: Mike Vickers | February 08, 2013 at 09:09 PM