In Search of the Good

• What is this instrument?• What is it used for?• How is it significant for a course in moral living?• Go to page 3 and read description of a sextant.• Review Table of Contents• Read pages 5-6 together

Ethics or Morality? Which is it?• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpRjr8tp6fo 7:03

• Read page 8 (blue box together)• Define Ethics in your notes

Ethics comes from the Greek word ta ethika (having to do with good character) Ethics is more interested in the Good that humans tend towards, such as happiness and freedom.

• Define Morality in your notes

Morality comes from the Latin word moralitas (having to do with the customs, habits and manners shaping human life) Morality is more interested in ways that humans can attain this good, such as the rules, laws or commandments we experience as a duty or obligation to follow.

The Ethical Experience:Four ways of locating the ethical in youEthical Experience Chart (add details)

“the Scream” “the Beggar”The experience of personal response The experience of the other

“I have to”The experience of obligation

“this is intolerable! this isn’t fair”The experience of contrast

Watch Clip and identify the Ethical experience of the

Captain and Professor…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrSuNipvS4UEthics & Morality 6:28

Ethical Responses Journal

• Answer the 5 questions on page 10 (in the blue box) in your Journal