What this Ethics course is about…

good and bad

INTRODUCTORY
right and wrong
DISCUSSION obeying rules

pursuing ideals

developing character

What this Ethics course is not… Introduction to Ethics

this is not values education

this is not catechism

Valuation
this is not moral theology

this is not a rulebook or instruction manual

this is not applied ethics (yet)

 Valuation
Introduction to Ethics
Aesthetics
Etiquette/Manners
Technical / “Practical”
Moral reasoning
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Legal
Cultural
Religious

Moral reasoning Moral reasoning

Why? Reasons

Reward and Punishment? Rationalizing

vs.
Benefit? Reasoning

Authority?
Reasons
Conformity?
Principles
Introduction to Ethics Hindrances:

Moral philosophy Subjectivism

Hindrances: Hindrances:

Relativism Psychological Egoism

 Hindrances: Approaches:

Plays
Movies
Ethical Egoism TV Series
News
Scenes/Cases

PLAYS
 MOVIES

Antigone Captain America: Civil War
Sophocles
Hacksaw Ridge
The Crucible
Arthur Miller Les Miserables

A Doll’s House Oro

Henrik Ibsen
 TV SERIES
 NEWS

Vietnamese boy, 13, kills woman for money to play
How to Get Away with Murder video games

My Husband’s Lover HANOI - Police in Vietnam have arrested a 13-year-old

boy accused of murdering and robbing an 81-year-old
The Walking Dead woman for money to play online games. Dinh The Dan
was arrested on Sunday at his home…80 kilometers
south of Hanoi…
West World Police say Dan strangled Mai Thi Mau, 81, with a
piece of rope and took 100,000 dong (6.2 dollars) from
her before burying her in a pile of sand in front of his
house…. "Dan confessed that he needed money to play
online games and decided to kill and rob the woman."

NEWS
 SCENES / CASES


Saudi man married Filipino for her kidney
Lifeboat Scenario
MANILA -- A Saudi Arabian man married a Filipino
woman as a cover for buying her kidney… Trolley Problem
The Social Welfare Secretary said the Saudi
man applied for a transplant at a government-run
hospital, listing his wife as his voluntary donor. But
hospital officials became suspicious when they
learned the couple had married only recently and
that the husband spoke no English or Tagalog,
while the Filipino wife spoke no Arabic.
 POINT?


Getting them to think about ethics