PHI 2394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Josef Mengele, Operation Paperclip, Speciesism
30 Oct 2018
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October 9th 2018: midterm on the 16th; chapters 1-5; everything from september to mid. No lecture that day: m/c, fb, paragraph analysis from the text; worth 20%; 60 minutes. Prenology: look at the bumps on the skull~movie reference. Impressive, even jewish inmates said that he looks nice: scientist who researched on twins. He would take on twin and submerge them in freezing water so see how long they would die. Military force wanted this research in order to find out how long would soldiers who escaped into the ocean would last. ***textbook: the old one went to the left. Destroy the children: a man who was not engage. Joseph mengele: wanted to create, cloning,genetics, identical twins, consider the results, operation paperclip, after wwii, americans and the british allowed the scientist to avoid prosecution in exchange for their research, germans and japanese scientist. Kantian ethics-rights, there are somethings that are wrong regardless of the consequences.
