Star Trekkin through Ethics.

So,  Vulcans are the theoretical elevation of logic within the bipedal psyche.  I like the way that star trek seems to poke fun at the Enlightenment.  For those who don't know,  the Enlightenment is taught in Mercer's Great Books program as the area of time right about 16-1900 when philosophers started to suggest that reason was the most noble aim in human perception.  The reverberations of this philosophy are felt all over the place in our world today.

I enjoy the quote at the end of Star Trek 6 from Leonard Nimoy's character "Spock" suggesting that the Vulcans as a species are too inflexible to be relevant to the world of the 24th century.  It seems to me that the possibility of being inflexible in our understanding of the world can beset all of us as we study ethics this semester.

So,  to avoid this quandary,  don't read blog posts and watch star trek on a sunday night...

Merry MLK day, everyone!