Presentation Reflection

Following the presentation there are 3 points I want to reflect on.

1. The Work Load
In my opinion all the members of my group did equally. We split up our topics, worked quite effectively, and finished our assignment on time with fine quality.

2. What to do differently next time
The major thing I feel like I need to do is create a script for myself. While I don't need a word for word script, a good outline is important and a lot of my presentations are improvised so I think it could be beneficial if I made a script.

3. What I learned
I've never known any of the religion types presented except for a extremely tiny understanding of theism so, for me, everything presented was new for me including my own presentation so it's safe to say I learned a lot.

Conscience

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. – HL Mencken

I for one do not agree with this quote. To me conscience is the voice which helps one discern what's right and wrong in moral grounds, not something that raises awareness towards peer pressure. However, this quote definitely has something to say about our society. Often times, we want to do something good, but the fear of being mocked for such actions from others stops many actions from happening. This idea though, does not come from one's conscience and in my opinion, is created from pressures in society, which is normally a sense of conformity for everyone.

Ethics and Morals

"Are ethics and morals interconnected?"

First of all, yes they definitely are, and to be more specific, I believe that ethics is a part of morals. I don't know the exact definitions so I could be wrong, but my idea is that when someone states the stance of an action, they say morally "right" or "wrong", implying that the word is neutral and just related to right and wrong. However, when using the word "ethical", one normally says just "ethical" for positive and "unethical" for negative, which says that the word "ethical" is a word for morally right. Therefore, ethics is only a more specific section in morals.

First Post Ever

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 
- Aristotle

In my opinion, education towards morals and aspects like this are important to an education, but it absolutely does not make an education useless. While not as effective a society built of those who are educated in books but not heart is by far better than a society of illiterate people who aren't educated at all since the latter at least has some form of learning and has a greater ability to do something more productive.