View any movie or documentary on the ancient or medieval periods. "Game of Thrones", "Spartacus", "The Ten Commandments", "Apocalypto", "Gladiator", or any other you can think of. What ethical theory do the main characters express most of the time?
2,virtue
A lot of individuals formerly considered "virtuous" are having their vicious sides revealed, including Presidents, Confederate Generals, movie moguls, celebrities, etc. Assuming no one is perfect, name a person, living or dead, factual or fictional, whom you consider to be a virtuous moral example for everyone to learn from in spite of his or her known flaws of character and/or judgment.
Also, what is it about these flaws that is different from, for example, the flaws of the Confederate Generals, which have recently resulted in their statues being knocked off their horses and their battle flags being banned -- meaning they can't be moral
View any movie or documentary on the ancient or medieval periods. "Game of Thrones", "Spartacus", "The Ten Commandments", "Apocalypto", "Gladiator", or any other you can think of. What ethical theory do the main characters express most of the time?
2,Are there any moral acts that are in themselves so bad, awful, disgusting or downright wrong that they should never, ever be done, regardless of the actor's intentions and the act's consequences? And what is it about such absolutely bad acts that
makes them so bad?
3Ethics as therapy
Has anything you learned in this course helped you in any way get through the pandemic? (If you didn't learn anything that helped, or anything at all, you can say so without fear of retaliation.)
The textbook is Louis Pojman, "Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong", 8th edition, published in 2017 by Cengage Learning (ISBN 978-1-305-58455-6).
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