Midterm Exam Wednesday October 2012 Moral Reasoning Test format and point distribution: * 5 matching (2 points each) * 20 multiple choice questions (1 point each) * 2 essays (5 points each) Format for Essay Questions:You will be given a moral dilemma and asked to apply either Utilitarianism or Kant’s moral theory to the situation Things to consider when applying the ethical theories Utilitarianism: For utilitarianism‚ you need to remember that we are concerned with the greatest
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word ethics was defined as meaning “disposition or character‚ customs‚ and approved ways of acting” (Shapiro and Gross‚ 2013). When theorist and educators began to develop models to explain ethics in an educational realm‚ Sergiovanni sought after moral leadership as a principle of justice in regards to his “virtuous schools” (Shapiro and Gross‚ 2013). Sergiovanni believed leaders in education to be stewards within the educational system to be just and beneficent‚ by having a deep concern for the
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One of the morals of this fairytale would be to not succumb to peer pressure. Had the emperor not cared about looking like a fool in front of his ministers‚ he would have declared that he could see nothing‚ and would have asked whether the ministers could actually see anything. Another moral would be to always give your honest opinion. The rest of the public realize that it is the emperor who is the fool and not themselves when the child speaks his honest opinion. The last moral of this fairytale
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Socrates’ Moral Decision To Not Escape Was Socrates wise to stay in Athens to die? Examine firstly the context of the word wise ‚ Socrates wasn’t wise in the sense of preserving his own life as he stayed to die. He was encouraged and given the chance to escape by his friend Crito‚ but Socrates did not want to escape . Why? Socrates was a wise man. He believed in absolutes‚ and pursued the knowledge of man’s source of goodness and virtue. He believed that the repayment of evil with evil
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The moral model states that addictions are the result of human weakness‚ and are defects of a persons character. People who don’t agree with the moral model ‚ often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions. They believe either that a person with greater moral strength could have the will to break an addiction‚ or that the addict showed a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is applied to dependency on illegal substances‚ perhaps purely
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Is moral universalism the truth? According to Streiffer [1]‚ moral universalism is an ethical position that there are some moral values which are agreed by all people‚ ignoring nationality‚ culture‚ religion or other differentiating features. Some famous philosophers‚ from the ancient Platonists and Stoics‚ to modern Kantian‚ Objectivist‚ believed in moral universalism. Besides‚ a majority of religions have morally universalist positions. However‚ at the same time‚ there are also some famous philosophers
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6/8/12 What are moral panics? What are ’moral panics ’? Hayley Burns If we do not take steps to preserve the purity of blood‚ the Jew will destroy civilisation by poisoning us all. (Hitler‚ 1938) Surely if the human race is under threat‚ it is entirely reasonable to segregate AIDS victims‚ otherwise the whole of mankind could be engulfed. (The Daily Star‚ 2 December 1988) Although an extreme illustration‚ the above quotes serve to set up the creation of a ’moral panic ’. Just as Hitler
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Thesis: Does Maggie Tulliver reach all stages of Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development? Stages of Moral Development of Maggie Tulliver Premoral: It’s hard to pinpoint Maggie Tulliver in Kohlberg’s first stage of moral development. Naturally‚ it would seem every person starts in this stage before our minds begin to advance in development. However‚ the times we see Maggie get in trouble for being disobedient‚ she has disobeyed without seeming worried about whether she gets caught or not. She seems
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"Teenagers today lack moral values and self-discipline. Do you agree?" Moral values and graciousness‚ in the past‚ were prominent in most teenagers. Majority of the youths then learnt respect‚ courtesy‚ consideration‚ decency‚ propriety‚ honesty and righteousness from a young age‚ and had enough self-discipline to hold to these values. However‚ these moral values and self-discipline are slowly diminishing over the years‚ as most of the younger generation are gradually disregarding these ethics.
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greater good. Utilitarianism states that an act is right if and only if it produces more happiness and pleasure than unhappiness and pain. When we do utilitarianism‚ we aim to maximize overall happiness and minimize pain. In this essay‚ I will explain and defend the moral theory of utilitarianism. According to the theory of utilitarianism‚ an action is right if it brings the best possible result. An action is right based on the actual results‚ not the expected results. For instance‚
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