Scenarios

1. Ethics: Respond to each scenario with what you think the best course of action might be. What is the right thing to do? Are the two synonymous?

2. Scenarios • Your friend asks to copy your work. • Your friend asks to look at your exam while you are taking them. • You look at the paper next to you and copy answers. • You use Google translate. • You cheat on one test because you stayed up late studying for another test (for a subject in which you have more interest). • You discuss test material with classmates from other periods in between classes. • You plagiarize an essay for English class because you don’t believe your teacher reads your essays anyway. • You say you turned something in when you know you didn’t because you know your teacher will believe you, because generally speaking, you’re not a bad kid. You just didn’t have time to do that assignment. • You found your siblings old exams and you use them to study.

3. Terminology • Meta- ethics • Objectivism • Relativism • Reason vs emotion • Egoism • Consequentialism • Altruism • Utility Ethics • Kant’s Ethics From yesterday you should have defined: • Sacred canopy • Modern ethics • Traditional ethics • Ethical norm

4. Kant + Duty Ethics • The outcome does not determine the worth of an action, but rather the motivations of the person committing the action. • Categorical Imperative • Always use reason • Always tell the truth • a) never treat anyone as a means to an end. All people must be treated as ends in and of themselves b) consider every action a standard for universal human behavior