Ethc 445n week 2 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • extbook: Chapters 3,4 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Initial Post Instructions St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God knows already what we will do. God ...

There's no religion without ethics; for most of the world's people, there's no ethics without religion. Religious principles are the basics upon which a religion is founded. The Jewish and Christian Ten Commandments' "Thou shalt not kill"-or is it instead "murder"? (Links to an external site.) is a religious principle, as is the Five Pillars of Islam's Shahadah. So is the Buddhist and Hindu non-violence "ahimsa," or the Wiccan-pagan if "it harm none, do what you will." There are ma...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • extbook: Chapters 3,4 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Initial Post Instructions St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God knows already what we will do. Go...

There's no religion without ethics; for most of the world's people, there's no ethics without religion. Religious principles are the basics upon which a religion is founded. The Jewish and Christian Ten Commandments' "Thou shalt not kill"-or is it instead "murder"? (Links to an external site.) is a religious principle, as is the Five Pillars of Islam's Shahadah. So is the Buddhist and Hindu non-violence "ahimsa," or the Wiccan-pagan if "it harm none, do what you will." There are ma...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • extbook: Chapters 3,4 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Initial Post Instructions St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God knows already what we will do. Go...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter13 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Introduction Some people believe that you can tell who a person is by what they do when no one is looking. Let's look at the following case. John Doe, a nurse, has downloaded an application to her phone that allows him to download copyrighted textbooks for a nursing course (that Doe is going to take) without his Inter...

There's no religion without ethics; for most of the world's people, there's no ethics without religion. Religious principles are the basics upon which a religion is founded. The Jewish and Christian Ten Commandments' "Thou shalt not kill"-or is it instead "murder"? (Links to an external site.) is a religious principle, as is the Five Pillars of Islam's Shahadah. So is the Buddhist and Hindu non-violence "ahimsa," or the Wiccan-pagan if "it harm none, do what you will." There...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter12 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Introduction Each person owes a duty to himself or herself and to the world to study ethics and to engage in thoughtful debate about what is right, and what is wrong. It is this habit of thinking about and reflecting on ethics that will help you determine the right choices when faced with an ethical dilemma. Initial P...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 9,10 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Introduction Kant's famous First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative reads, "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Kant taught morality as a matter of following maxims of living that reflect absolute laws. "Universal" is a term that...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • extbook: Chapters 3,4 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Initial Post Instructions St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God knows already what we will do. God ...