WEEK 16WEEK 16 TOK AGENDA - ONLINE LEARNING WEEK 6: *Please copy this page into your TOK notebook as you would normally do at the beginning of each week.*Please submit only your answers to the CASE STUDY for a grade this week. It will be a formative grade (15%) *ZOOM video-phone conference will occur on Friday @ 10:00 AM.

TOK AIM #1 Make connections between a critical approach to the construction of knowledge, the academic disciplines and the wider worldTOK AIM #4 Critically reflect on their own beliefs and assumptions, leading to more thoughtful, responsible and purposeful lives.

1. Defining Prudence, Virtuous and Emotional Intelligence - See the attached PPT slides and take notes from the included readings. You should not copy them word for word - this would take a long time! Simply read and take notes in your own style and then follow the directions and answer any included questions using your own critical and creative thinking.

2. Examining Leadership and Decision-Making - See the attached PPT slides and take notes from the included readings. You should not copy them word for word - this would take a long time! Simply read and take notes in your own style and then follow the directions and answer any included questions using your own critical and creative thinking.

3. Case Study: Chinese Social Credit System - Watch the included videos and read the attached Case Study. Answer the included questions. This is the ONLY 1 item you should submit this week for a grade in Infinite Campus. Please submit by 5/8.

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1. Defining Prudence, Virtuous and Emotional Intelligence - See the attached PPT slides and copy the lecture notes. Simply follow the directions and answer any included questions using your own critical and creative thinking.

Emotion as a WOK in human sciences

How is emotion used in human sciences?The human sciences study human behaviour. Emotion is an important characteristic of humans and human sciences may involve investigating the extent to which emotion affects the actions of individuals and communities. This is an inconsistent subjective variable that is hard to isolate, predict and quantify.

Emotion is important for the process of research and knowledge development. The researchers are subject to the same emotions as those whom they study. The decisions that are taken during knowledge development will be influenced by emotions. The hypotheses may also reflect opinions that will then become self-fulfilling prophecies in the conclusions.

Here are three sets of claims and counterclaims about emotion as a Way of Knowing in human sciences.

WEEK 16Emotion as a Way of Knowing in ethics

How is emotion used in ethics?The understanding of right and wrong is often influenced by emotion in one way or another because some ethical paradigms require us to decide about the consequences of our actions, which might be related to or directly affect emotions and emotional states.

In utilitarianism, we have to determine general utility, which means what would make the most number of individuals happiest. Our emotions are at work in many ethical decisions as we consider how we might justify our actions to ourselves or others.

The reasons why an action is undertaken are important to determine whether it is right or wrong. Antonio Damasio has claimed that if the emotional knowledge centres of the brain are damaged, people cannot determine right from wrong. Should they be punished or treated?

WEEK 16Prior to this week’s lesson, had you ever heard of the term Emotional Intelligence before? If so, when? Do you think we can actually determine an emotional score (an EQ) for individuals?

Key Definitions Prudence: Practical Wisdom

Virtuous: Demonstrating high moral standards

How do you think these two terms are or could be related to emotional intelligence?

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Watch this 5-minute video about Emotional Intelligence

1. How do you define Emotional Intelligence? 2. How do you think one acquires or develops Emotional Intelligence?3. Do you think Emotional Intelligence can be trained or educated? 4. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your Emotional Intelligence? 5. Why do you score yourself in that way?

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2. Examining Leadership and Decision-Making - See the attached PPT slides and copy the lecture notes. Simply follow the directions and answer any included questions using your own critical and creative thinking.

Knowledge about ourselves

We learn to recognise our emotions and what causes them. We use other Ways of Knowing to analyse them and remember them. Whether we can control them or not depends on the answer to the question about whether they are cognitive or non-cognitive processes. We might not be able to describe them very well. Perhaps that is why we express them through analogy and metaphor, and admire the representations of them by artists. Our emotions can help us be intellectually and artistically creative.

Knowledge about others

Human beings have the skill of empathy. We claim that we know how somebody else feels at times of great emotion, positive and negative. This is an essential element of interpersonal relationships in communities and groups, and is an essential bonding skill. V. S. Ramachandran and others have suggested that this is the result of mirror neurons in the brain that are activated when we see somebody in an emotional state. A knowledge about other humans can help in research in other people-based Areas of Knowledge such as human science, history and ethics.

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Speed and intuitive knowing

Emotional knowing happens five times more quickly than rational knowing. It enables us to take potentially lifesaving evasive action before it is too late. Emotion gives us knowledge without having to think about it. We think about it later and use other Ways of Knowing to evaluate our response. Intuition is a separate Way of Knowing with its own subtopic.

Importance: opinions, decisions, choices and judgments

Our emotional engagement in something indicates that it is important to us. We know that emotion helps us to focus on decision-making. If something is not important, we do not care so much and do not make the effort to engage, form an opinion and take a decision. Learning is linked to emotional engagement. Some of your teachers will try to maximise your emotional engagement in their lessons by carefully planning activities.

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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” - Abraham Lincoln1. What are your thoughts on this quote? 2. How could this be connected to emotion? Emotional intelligence? 3. Besides emotion, to what other ways of knowing could this

Be connected? 4. How is it related to our current studies on human sciences? Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in Kentucky in 1809. He was an

Illinois legislator and U.S. Congressman before later joining the new Republican party and becoming elected as the 16th President of the United States. He was assassinated in 1865. Lincoln is lauded for his unprecedented leadership during a time of great moral and political adversity for our nation. Have you ever studied him or his presidency?

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VIRTUOUS LEADERSHIP Five millennia ago, ancient Egyptians developed a

concept known as Maat. Comprising justice, law, order, truth, morality, and balance, Maat was the opposite of chaos, injustice, and dishonesty. In many ways, this concept is similar to what we today refer to as virtue.Although most often discussed in a religious context, virtue is a concept that transcendsreligion. The term itself describes a set of character traits associated with high moralstandards.

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VIRTUOUS LEADERSHIP The term virtue first entered the English language in the 13th century. It was coined many

centuries earlier in ancient Rome where it was used to describe the admirable qualitiesof men. These included not only their moral conduct but also their strength and even physical features.

In fact, the root of the word virtue is vir, which is the ancient Roman word for man.Over the centuries, the meaning of virtue has evolved, but the basic concept has remainedthe same.

Virtue can refer to any quality or character trait that society considers morally good.Honesty, loyalty, courage, and kindness are universally seen as positive traits.

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VIRTUOUS LEADERSHIP Whether religious or secular, all definitions of virtue agree that a virtuous person has a

good moral character and the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong.

Virtues are developed through repetition. By practicing virtuousness in everyday life, youcan gradually turn your virtues into habits and build a strong character in the process.

1. How could this be related to emotional intelligence? 2. More generally, how could this be related to decision-making and effective

leadership?

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VIRTUOUS LEADERSHIP In his work “Nicomachean Ethics,”, the Greek philosopher Aristotle listed 12 virtues that help people behave in the right way at the right time.

How is “behaving in the right way at the right time” related to PRUDENCE?

Aristotle’s 12 Virtues:1. Courage2. Temperance3. Liberality4. Magnificence5. Magnanimity6. Ambition7. Patience8. Friendliness9. Truthfulness

10. Wittiness11. Modesty12. Justice

← Copy this list. Use www.m-w.com to help you note the definition of any word with

which you are not familiar.

WEEK 163. Case Study: Chinese Social Credit System - Watch the included videos and read the attached Case Study. Answer the questions. This is the ONLY 1 item you should submit this week for a grade.

When we consider emotional intelligence and virtuous leadership this may feel noble and even inspiring. You may be able to think of people in your own lives (or maybe even examples of yourself) where you have demonstrated prudence, virtuous traits, or applied great emotional intelligence.

However, when we extrapolate this to the society at large and then try to also layer our knowledge of human sciences we must wonder what would happen if we then legislate this type of thing? That is, we create governments where there are rules about what is “right” and “wrong”.

In the United States and around the world, even in third world countries, we already do this to varying degrees. at the federal and state levels and Even in smaller, local governments there are often unique laws about what is “right” and “wrong” - including what is morally “good” or “bad”. Let’s consider what, then, might happen if we apply scientific technology to our regulation of such human behavior…..

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Watch this 8-min NBC News video about the Chinese Social Credit System

Watch this 5-min France 24 video about the Chinese Social Credit System

What are your first thoughts about this, upon watching the videos? Do you have any prior knowledge about this or have you studied this before? What details is the video perhaps lacking? What are some questions or concerns you have regarding this?

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WEEK 16Please answer question #1 using at least 10 bullet points.PLease answer questions #2-3 using complete at least 3 complete sentences each.