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Section F The Moral Challenge

Section F The Moral Challenge. Chapter Twenty-Six Introduction to Morality. Morality. Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour The word morality refers to the idea that some things are right and others are wrong

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Section F The Moral Challenge

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  1. Section F The Moral Challenge Chapter Twenty-Six Introduction to Morality

  2. Morality • Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour • The word morality refers to the idea that some things are right and others are wrong • It is about ideas of good and bad and whether actions and ideas can be considered to be eithergood or bad

  3. What Influences Morality? • Family   • Friends • School   • State • Religion • Media

  4. Choice and Conscience • Choice means choosing between two or more possibilities • Individuals can choose how they act and what they do or say • Having as much information as possible helps inform a person’s conscience • Conscienceis a person’s ability to choose between right and wrong

  5. Freedom • The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants • Having control over your own choices • Living without fear of persecution or harassment • Being able to act, speak and think freely has to be accompanied with an awareness of the freedom of others • The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights ensures many freedoms • Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion

  6. State Law and Personal Morality Can laws be immoral?   What if ... • ... the law discriminated against individuals, ethnic groups, political groups and religious communities? • ... people were not allowed to practise their religion? • ... women were not allowed to work in certain jobs? • ... girls received less education than boys? • ... people were not allowed to vote?

  7. Topics for Debate Consider the issue of personal morality versus state morality with regard to: • war • medical ethics • censorship

  8. Actions and Consequences • Outcomes are a result of deciding to act in a certain way • When a person acts in a certain way there are always consequences • Depending on the action, consequences may be good or bad • A person has choice over how they act – not in what the consequences will be

  9. Society • An organisation of people living alongside each other • In society people have rights and responsibilities • Laws in a society affect how people live their lives and influence their opinion of what is right or wrong

  10. Thinking about Moral Issues • What is the moral choice? • Who/what should influence the choice? • What are the possible actions? • What are the possible consequences?

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