Moral Leader Analysis
MORAL LEADER FINAL PAPER
How do you define a moral challenge? What is your definition of moral reasoning? What does moral leadership mean to you?
These are the questions we were presented with at the beginning of this course. At the time, I had difficulty answering each one. I had never actually sat down and thought about any of these concepts before. I always felt that I had a solid idea of what leadership consisted of and what I considered to be moral but in answering those questions I realized, I did not. It took me quite a while to answer each and as I did I was still unsure of my response.
As I look back at my answers to these questions from the first week of class, I realize how far my understanding of these concepts has come. I now understand that moral leadership requires an articulated and justified process to arrive at a moral decision. Moral leadership requires a solid reasoning process to end up at a just decision. I had never realized the importance of process in making a decision before. Prior to taking this class, I had assumed that most of the decisions leaders made came from their own ideas of morality and right and wrong.
In order to more fully examine my newfound understanding of moral leadership, I chose to write about the play Major Barbara. I have always been interested in plays about social commentary and had wanted to read this work for quite some time. I think the theories involved in the work are extremely relevant to today’s politics and it gives an excellent example of how leaders with very different principles can make moral decisions and work together without sacrificing their own set of values. I found both the main characters in the work to be fine examples of moral leaders and the decisions they made to be excellent examples of moral leadership for current times but I really focused my analysis on the main character, Barbara.
To fully explain my reasoning of why I found Barbara to be a moral leader and her decisions to be
How do you define a moral challenge? What is your definition of moral reasoning? What does moral leadership mean to you?
These are the questions we were presented with at the beginning of this course. At the time, I had difficulty answering each one. I had never actually sat down and thought about any of these concepts before. I always felt that I had a solid idea of what leadership consisted of and what I considered to be moral but in answering those questions I realized, I did not. It took me quite a while to answer each and as I did I was still unsure of my response.
As I look back at my answers to these questions from the first week of class, I realize how far my understanding of these concepts has come. I now understand that moral leadership requires an articulated and justified process to arrive at a moral decision. Moral leadership requires a solid reasoning process to end up at a just decision. I had never realized the importance of process in making a decision before. Prior to taking this class, I had assumed that most of the decisions leaders made came from their own ideas of morality and right and wrong.
In order to more fully examine my newfound understanding of moral leadership, I chose to write about the play Major Barbara. I have always been interested in plays about social commentary and had wanted to read this work for quite some time. I think the theories involved in the work are extremely relevant to today’s politics and it gives an excellent example of how leaders with very different principles can make moral decisions and work together without sacrificing their own set of values. I found both the main characters in the work to be fine examples of moral leaders and the decisions they made to be excellent examples of moral leadership for current times but I really focused my analysis on the main character, Barbara.
To fully explain my reasoning of why I found Barbara to be a moral leader and her decisions to be