Now that you’ve created a set of personal values, how do you go about implementing them? In the lecture series Moral Decision Making, Clancy Martin, Ph.D. considers various moral challenges in the context of twenty-four, thirty minute video lectures. Offered for purchase by The Great Courses, this lecture series can also be rented from various libraries. Topics considered include:
Why be good?
Is it ever permissible to lie?
Aren’t whistle-blowers being disloyal?
What’s wrong with gossip?
Do I have an obligation to be healthy?
Can I sneak a grape or two while shopping?
Is it wrong to make as much money as I can?
What are my obligations to the poor?
Can we do better than the Golden Rule?
Why can’t I just live for pleasure?
Why can’t I date a married person?
Are jealousy and resentment always wrong?
What are the rules for respecting privacy?
What do I owe my aging parents?
Should I help a suffering loved one die?
Is genetic enhancement “playing God”?
Is conscientious objection a moral right?
Is it always wrong to fight back?
Should the death penalty be abolished?
Is torture ever acceptable?
Do animals have rights?
Why should I recycle?
Does it matter where I shop?
What would Socrates do?
Quite a bit to consider, don’t you think?!
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