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Nov 7, 2016 · Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. About the Center. Center News. Faith Formation Resources. Build.Plant.Grow. curriculum follows the Lectionary of the Catholic Church.
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.
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- 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...
We provide a free Faith Formation (Catechesis) curriculum to foster religious development and character building. The lesson plans use picture storybooks and experiential learning to promote moral values and ethical behavior.
Markkula Center) is a multi-program, university-based, ap-plied ethics center—the largest and most comprehensive one of its kind in the world. Many universities have ethics centers, and some are applied ethics centers, but the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is distinctive in its breadth, covering multiple major areas in
Build.Plant.Grow. lesson plans for Ordinary Time draw on the lectionary and classic children's literature to teach about faith and character.
