Good Morning

Please find your new table for the week, grab a drink and take out your journal.

What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?• ‘I think the problem, to be quite honest with

you, is that you've never actually known what the question was.’

• How did you get there? • Where did your knowledge come from? • What influenced you to take the position you

eventually did? • We already know what we think. But what is

the reason for what we think?

We hold positions on issues and events, again, forming these both instinctively and after a period

of consideration.

What are the origins of our knowledge?

• What led to the first story being rejected, and the second one accepted?

• Why do we now have as part of our scientific and technological knowledge the awareness that animals can be cloned, and not that airplanes are able to make it into space?

• We have our ways of knowing to inform us, but how do they work on the knowledge we are presented with to reach a conclusion about its validity?

The Unconsidered Life-A.C. Grayling 1. Why did Socrates believe that the

unconsidered life isn’t worth leading?2. How prevalent do you think this view is in

modern society?3. What are your opinions on it?