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Lotte at a philosophy evening
Once a month a café by the lake asks a big question, and tonight it is whether you may lie to protect a friend. Learn to talk about ethics and morality, freedom and responsibility, and to think a dilemma through when there is no easy answer.
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Host
Interessant. Ihr Gewissen entscheidet also mit?
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Translation
Interesting. So your conscience has a say too?
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Vielleicht ist genau das Ethik: kein fertiges Urteil, sondern ein Dilemma gründlich durchdenken.
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Translation
Maybe that's exactly what ethics is: not a ready-made verdict, but thinking a dilemma through properly.
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Words and Phrases
- die Philosophie philosophy
- die Ethik ethics
- die Moral morality
- das Dilemma dilemma
- das Gewissen conscience
- die Tugend virtue
- die Pflicht duty
- die Abwägung weighing up
- der Grundsatz principle
- die Menschenwürde human dignity
- das Gedankenexperiment thought experiment
- philosophieren to philosophize
- lügen to lie
- durchdenken to think through
- moralisch moral
- verwerflich reprehensible
- vertretbar justifiable
- Gewissensbisse haben to have a guilty conscience
- ethisch ethical
- die Freiheit freedom
- die Verantwortung responsibility
- die Wahrheit truth
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