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Build. Plant. Grow. is a free faith formation program for schools, parishes, and families. Engaging lesson plans pair scriptural readings with children's literature and experiential education.
It has expanded to include materials for independent study and for Catholic schools, including the faith formation program Build.Plant.Grow. In the mid 1990s, Mike and Linda Markkula launched the Center’s endowment with a $5 million gift and the Center was renamed as the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
- What Is Ethics?
- Six Ethical Lenses
- Using The Lenses
- Making Decisions
- A Framework For Ethical Decision Making
Ethics refers to standards and practices that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves—as friends, parents, children, citizens, businesspeople, professionals, and so on. Ethics is also concerned with our character. It requires knowledge, skills, and habits. It is helpful to identify what ethics is N...
If our ethical decision-making is not solely based on feelings, religion, law, accepted social practice, or science, then on what basis can we decide between right and wrong, good and bad? Many philosophers, ethicists, and theologians have helped us answer this critical question. They have suggested a variety of different lenses that help us percei...
Each of the lenses introduced above helps us determine what standards of behavior and character traits can be considered right and good. There are still problems to be solved, however. The first problem is that we may not agree on the content of some of these specific lenses. For example, we may not all agree on the same set of human and civil righ...
Making good ethical decisions requires a trained sensitivity to ethical issues and a practiced method for exploring the ethical aspects of a decision and weighing the considerations that should impact our choice of a course of action. Having a method for ethical decision-making is essential. When practiced regularly, the method becomes so familiar ...
Identify the Ethical Issues 1. Could this decision or situation be damaging to someone or to some group, or unevenly beneficial to people? Does this decision involve a choice between a good and bad alternative, or perhaps between two “goods” or between two “bads”? 2. Is this issue about more than solely what is legal or what is most efficient? If s...
United States. Website. www.scu.edu/ethics. The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is a department at Jesuit Santa Clara University. It was created by Manuel Velasquez, a faculty member in the School of Business, and funded by early Apple Inc. investor Mike Markkula and his wife, Linda Markkula.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara, California. 2,284 likes · 5 talking about this · 209 were here. The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics focuses on Bioethics, Business & Leadership...
Sep 16, 2021 · Sept. 16, 2021, 3:10 PM PDT. By Deon J. Hampton. Ohio faith leaders and police reform advocates are calling on the federal government to launch a "pattern or practice" investigation into the ...
