Dec 26 2008
Philosophy Lesson 22
Heinz’s Dilemma
Heinz is a man whose wife is ill and about to die. There is a medicine that can cure her but only the pharmacy down the street has it. He needs it to save his wife but he only has $1000 and the medicine is $2000 and the pharmacist won’t give it to him.
Steal drug to save wife?
Let wife die but don’t steal?
This was tested on children. Boys said steal the medicine, girls said they refuse to believe there are no other alternatives.
Masculine- Linear- Left Brain [mind]
Feminine- Intuitive- Right Brain [feelings]
Irrational Faith
Cannot be proved but I still believe it because I have faith.
We can never know got through the mind, we cannot reduce him to ideas or something that we can think about and comprehend.
