Moral decision making is the ability to produce a reasonable and defensible answer to an ethical question. If you have not yet seen Part 1 on Moral Awareness, you can watch that video here. This video discusses how to apply those lessons. Here are links to the entire Being Your Best Self series:
Moral awareness is the ability to detect and appreciate the ethical aspects of a decision that one must make. Learn why that matters in the following video, then watch the second video. Here are links to the entire Being Your Best Self series:
Behavioral Ethics investigates why people make the ethical (and unethical) decisions that they do in order to gain insights into how people can improve their ethical decision-making and behavior. For example, most people think of themselves as good people, yet frequently lie and cheat in minor ways. Learn how that can be in the following…
Systematic moral analysis is a tool that helps us to think through ethically complex situations. Watch this video from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas to learn about how SMA can help you make better decisions.
Media representations of individuals or groups can hurt by reflecting stereotypes and mistaken beliefs or can help by being truthful and inclusive. This video describes how stereotypes (e.g. of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, belief, ability, or age) negatively impact the groups of people being represented.
A moral agent is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong, and has the power to intentionally cause harm to another. A moral subject is anything that can be harmed. This video focuses on distinguishing between the concepts of moral agent and subject of moral worth. Also important to this relationship is the moral community, which includes…
The relationship between laws and ethics is not always clear. Although we may have a legal right to do something, this does not necessarily mean it is ethically justified. Sometimes, a law is unjust, meaning that does not achieve ethical goals. This video details the difference.
When making ethical decisions, the one consideration that a theory favors over all other considerations is called the Fundamental Moral Unit. Western philosophy identifies the individual as the FMU; feminist theories tend to use relationship and maintaining the connections among people; Eastern and indigenous theories put natural or spiritual systems as the core to be…
This video explores the different types of harm that may be caused to people or groups and the potential reasons we may have for justifying these harms. It helps form a basis for thinking critically about decisions.
Attribution is giving credit where credit is due. Appropriation is the complex borrowing of ideas, images, symbols, sounds, and identity from others. This video from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas walks through the ethical issues around using another person’s work.
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