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What makes a person morally courageous?

Investigating moral courage across studies and professions to develop ethical research projects and tools. Examining altruistic behavior in WWII and in modern contexts, incorporating Confucian values and legal ethics.

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What makes a person morally courageous?

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  1. What makes a person morally courageous? And can we use your good will to help us design, set up, and run a research project?

  2. Our Questions For You 1. Oliner & Oliner – What they did and what they found. The Altruistic Personality: Adaptable? 2. The Yvonne Bradley et al study. Does it carry across to individual exemplars of moral courage? 3. The Confucian CPD and research study with Legal Executives. How might we engage practitioners? 4. Conflict of interest e.g. TSB Bank plc v Robert Irving & Burns. Should this type of situation be our paradigm case scenario?

  3. 1. Oliner & Oliner What they did – research question and methodology Why did people help Jews in WWII – when there was no material reward and personal risk? Asked a lot of questions of those who were known to have helped and of those not known to have helped What they found

  4. 1. Oliner & Oliner Q. Why might altruistic behaviour share qualities with ethical behaviour in a professional setting? • Moral courage – if moral courage is a useful concept we want to be able to apply it across different ethical domains Your question Do you think moral courage can be used across Oliner & Oliner’s Altruism study to professional practice and ethical resistance and action?

  5. 2. Yvonne Bradley Why we feel Yvonne Bradley and Charles Swift are examples of moral courage (who & why) Our proposed method: Approach by e-mail; Adapt the Oliners’ methods, questionnaire etc (partners?); Ask the questions and see what we find; Write up AND Use the experience to generate multiple choice or scaled instruments based on the original questionnaires.

  6. 2. Yvonne Bradley Our Problems – Your Questions Who else? How approach? Distance or face to face? How write up?

  7. 3. Confucian CPD Confucius in the Analects is reported to have answer the same question differently depending upon who asked it – he gave the answer most useful to the questioner. Ethics and dealing with ethical conflicts is a sensible topic of CPD – but running through the rules is less sensible given what we know about learning and teaching ethics. Also people like personality quizzes.

  8. 3. Confucian CPD Legal Executives are less well served in CPD terms than solicitors The Oath they take recognises (implicitly) that they may well face pressure to compromise their ethics Also people like personality quizzes.

  9. 3. Confucian CPD We propose a CPD programme that asks people: How would you react to this scenario do you think if it came up at work? This should sort into two groups. Then asks an adapted and multiple choice version of the questions that worked and in the first study (Yvonne Bradley above) Then give feedback and guidance based on the analysis of the questionnaire

  10. 3. Confucian CPD Your Questions Good idea or bad idea (in general terms)? Any obvious problems? Any examples of similar attempts that you know of? Would you be interested in getting involved? Do you know someone else you think might be interested in getting involved?

  11. 4. Conflict of Interest • Subject Matter for CPD • Permitted potential conflicts • TSB Bank plc v Robert Irving & Burns [1999] 2 Lloyds IR 528

  12. 4. Conflict of Interest Your questions Is this the right subject matter? Any obvious problems? Any obvious alternatives we should consider? Is there a conflict of interests in using an integrated research and teaching model here -what are the ethics of using the CPD to generate research findings that we hope to develop into a publishable output?

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