Oct 23, Mon - Introduction to Ethics

Next Quiz/Test: Monday is Quiz 4a: Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV)

Handouts: Student Manual, Pages 79-98

Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017

- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)

- Devotion 1 Presentation: Be ready to present on your day! See class schedule.

Instructional Time: Unit 4 - Ethics
Journal 4-1: Study Packet, page 15
- Answer these questions in 4-5 sentences, total
- - 1) How do you, personally, decide if something is good or bad (right or wrong) behavior?
- - 2) Describe three other ways that you think other people try to decide what good or bad (right or wrong) behavior is.

Ethics: Study Packet, Page 2

- Definition: The study of why & how we make moral choices

- Our Focus: How should we behave? 

Three Types of Ethical Statements: Study Packet, Page 2

- Cover Principles: Ethical statements with a broad & general focus

- - These apply to all situations. 

- - Examples: 

- - - Do what results in the greatest good for the greatest number

- - - Whatever you do should show love to God

- - These help unify your ethics in a way that makes sense

- Area Principles: Ethical statements with a narrower focus

- - These make the cover principle more practical & applicable

- - Examples: Do not steal. Do not murder. 

- Situation Rules: Very detailed instructions on how to live out a cover principle in a specific situation. 

- - Examples? 

- Think of the dress code at school

- - What is our 'Cover Principle'? 

- - - Probably something like, "Whatever we do will honor God" 

- - What might our Area Principle for the Dress Code be? 

- - - Probably something like, "Whatever we wear will honor God and be modest"

- - What might a situational rule be? 

- - - Skirts must be wtihin 4 inches of knees