1: It's time for another open-book, open-note test. It will be helpful for you to review the material from the past 3 classes. Take this take-home test.
2: Do some research on ethical terms. Look online for definitions for these eight terms. No plagiarism! I want you to put these in your own words, not cut and paste them from a website. So read a couple definitions and try to put them in real words that you'd use to explain these terms to a friend. If you need help, let me know.
- Ethics
- Moral Relativism
- Moral Absolutes
- Situational Ethics
- Utilitarian Ethics
- Kant’s Categorical Imperative
- Nonconflicting Absolutism
- Graded Absolutism
3: Ethical dilemmas: These are designed to make you think. The goal is not to pick apart or fuss about the dilemma. Don’t dismiss the question by going on and on about how you aren’t in Nazi Germany. Don’t try to weasel your way into a crazy, impossible option ("I’d pray for God to send fire from heaven and then run away…"). Be realistic and take the dilemmas seriously. Each situation is designed to make you think. Give good reasons for your position, especially if you are saying that it is okay to do something usually viewed as wrong. Why is it “right” to do “wrong” in this situation? I will score these on the basis of how well you answer the “why” question and if your logic is consistent.
- Football: Is it ethical for a Christian School to do a trick play, intentionally to deceive another team?
- Wallet: A man is praying to God for money to care for his young child who is deathly sick. In a public restroom, he finds a wallet with $800 in it, which would pay for his child’s medicines. He sees the ID and knows whose wallet it is, and knows that this man has plenty of money. Is it ethical to keep the money to save his child’s life?
- Nazis: This actually happened to Corrie Ten Boom. You are in Nazi Germany and a Jewish family has asked you to hide them, which you did. A guard comes to the door asking if you know where the Jews are. He will only accept a yes or no answer. Is it ethical to lie, or do you tell the truth knowing they will be taken to a concentration camp?
- Lights: Is it ethical to leave lights on at home when you are away, or it is the same as lying?
- Midwives: In Exodus 1, Pharaoh made a law ordering Hebrew midwives (ladies who help deliver babies) to kill any baby who male. Is it ethical to break the law?
- Terrorist: You work for the President and your team has captured a terrorist who has put 10 bombs in New York City. They are all scheduled to blow over the next 5 hours in residential areas, and the bombs will likely kill thousands. The profiler and terrorism experts on the team are convinced that if you allow them to torture the terrorist’s wife and young child in front of him, he will break and tell the authorities where the bombs are. Is it ethical to torture (but not kill) two people to save thousands?
Try not to hurt your brain with these. See you on Nov 13.-from your distinguished professor
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ReplyDeleteOh, pipe! You cause so much controversy!
ReplyDeleteActually, Hannah, that was a scarecrow argument. I did not say that not smoking a pipe was "un-hip and non-hardcore," as you called it. I merely meant that pipes were awesome and worthy of respect. Gandalf smokes a pipe, and he is the bomb!
ReplyDeleteYou are right though, it would be kind of awkward for you to smoke a pipe.
I found most of the terms, but I'm having trouble with Nonconflicting Absolutism....help?! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteFirst, google it. There are lots of good articles. Here is a simple one:
Deletehttp://godwardthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/02/moral-absolutism-2-non-conflicting.html
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ReplyDeleteI have turned off the permission to be able to post anonymously. You need to be able to create an account (which is free) to use this blog. We will talk about the recent comments in class.
ReplyDeleteDo you want us to cite our sources, or just say it in our own words? Can we quote the sources?
ReplyDeleteJust use judgment on citing. The rule is "when in doubt, cite it." But if you are using your own words, then there is little need to cite. If I explain that a giraffe is an animal from Africa, with a long neck, eats leaves, etc, then there is no need to cite that. I can find that info in a million places. But if you are using a specific example, specific wording (a quote), or something specific that you found in only one place (like a little known fact that giraffes explode if they eat a cupcake), then I'd cite it. Hope that helps.
ReplyDeleteYo! So, I just got on and tried the test and it didn't come up. Is this just me? Should I be doing somthing differently?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have a question from last class, is there an email that I can email you at? (or if it's easier, just email me at dsrimshaw@gmail.com and I'll reply with my question.)
Thanks,
DSR
Also...I need help. Someone a long time ago got on my account and made my google name, "wanna be".....and I don't know how to change it.
ReplyDeletePlease help.
ps, I'm not sure whats up with my name above. I'm a little lost.
Thx~
Part of me doesn't want to tell you how even if I did know.
DeleteYou guys are so intolerant. You know that's the only real sin, right?
DeleteDennis, I'll have help coming your way soon via email.
Agreed, though not on that question. A lot of these terms seem foreign to me Mr. Graves.
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