1. Your Epistemology?? Emotional Knowledge
Do you have a primary tendency?
Are you multi-modal?
Are there some that do not work for you?
ReligiousFaith
Rationalism
Occultism
Intuition
Mysticism
Empiricism
Emotional Knowledge

2. An Introductory Exploration

3. Ethics & Morality (Ethics = Moral Philosophy)
Concerned with “right” and “wrong” behavior
How should people behave?

4. The Four Branches of Ethics

5. Branches of Ethics
Meta-ethics: explores the origins, nature , and scope of ethics
Normative Ethics: proposes what should be considered right and wrong behavior
Descriptive Ethics: describes and compares how people or groups think and act ethically
Applied Ethics: decides how people should act in given situations or scenarios

6. The “sense of morality” is built into the human brain
The human brain has the
built-in capacity …
to laugh and cry
to use language
to think
to make music and art
to imagine
to remember
to intuit
to moralize
(Conscience)

7. If a “Moral Compass” is built in…
Right
Then, how do people fill in the content or decide which actions go where?
Neutral
Unsure
Wrong

8. Cultural Socialization How does society teach you right and wrong?
Family
Media
You
Peers
School

9. Are at least some ethical norms innate or inborn?
The Neuroscience of Ethics
To what extent are ethical inclinations hardwired in our brains?
Jonathan Haidt; Moral Roots

10. Are at least some ethical norms innate or inborn?
Care / Do not harm
Fairness / Do not cheat
Equality / Do not privledge or disadvantage
Loyalty / Do not betray
Authority / Do not subvert
Sanctity of the body / Do not desecrate
Let’s ask a monkey.

11. How do humans make ethical decisions?
✿ When you think about right and wrong behavior for yourself,
what do you look to for answers or for guidance? 

12. Develop a considered and conscious ethical code to live by.
Does it matter?
Option I
Option II
Just do what you think or feel is right when a decision or dilemma presents itself.
Develop a considered and conscious ethical code to live by.

13. What can we kill ethically?

14. Using your hands in a soccer game? Concealing some income on tax form?
✿ Is your approach to honesty always the same, or is it different when you are with your family, at the university, at work, or with your friends?
Is cheating wrong?
Using your hands in a soccer game?
Concealing some income on tax form?
Having a romantic fling with someone other than your life partner?
Yes
Depends No

15. ✿  Do you think or feel that you have a responsibility for the welfare of other people? If so, which other people?

16. End of Elephant Shows?

17. How Far Do Ethical Responsibilities Reach?
Eco-Ethics
Vitalism
Animism
Humanism
Nationalism
Tribalism

18. Who Should be Bound by an Ethical Code?

19. What should be the norms for right and wrong human behavior?
Normative Ethics
What should be the norms for right and wrong human behavior?
Assignment on 10-11