Process-Relational Philosophy: Cheating Is Fundamentally Wrong

Most students understand that the concept of cheating is fundamentally wrong, however, many students still do so. Shannon, Payton, Jordan and I created a hypothetical situation in which we would would reiterate to our survey volunteers. The situation read, “Imagine that you have a test coming up in one of your harder classes. You’ve been studying but you are still struggling with the material. Your friend comes up to you and tells you that they managed to get a copy of the answers for the test, and they offer a copy to you. Do you take it or no? Why?” Humans, especially teenagers, are well adapted to lying. Human nature has allowed individuals to lie automatically even if that was not their intent. This is because people are worried about how they will be perceived if they tell the truth. With that said, I was extraordinarily shocked to have received several yes …show more content…
For example, Mesle writes, “Anyone who has read the Apology of Socrates should understand the imperative that we must not pretend to know what we do not know.” (pg. 13) This correlates to my group project as students were given a situation in which they could cheat on a test. Even more so, these individuals would be able to memorize the answers and subsequently not understand the exam material. The students would be theoretically pretending to know information in which they have not studied. On the other hand, Mesle says, “Actions are right as they tend to make life better and wrong as they tend to make life worse.” (pg. 41) This statement counteracts my group project as we found that a wrong action can indeed benefit an individual. This is because when we surveyed individuals, one person described how cheating is a wrong action, however, you can further yourself in