Word: moralisms
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...seminal statement of education principle.The event, which filled the Faculty Room of University Hall, represented the first formal opportunity for response to the report since its release earlier this month.Comments echoed the internal debates of the committee that authored the report, including a call for the addition of a moral reasoning requirement.Representatives of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) and the Committee on General Education began the meeting by summarizing their recommendations.The Report on General Education mandates that students take three courses in each of three major areas—Arts and Humanities, the Study of Societies, and Science and Technology...
...this long line of lovable losers: “He’s definitely a loser, but I don’t know if he’s very lovable.”Indeed, Charlie is a neat twist on the Cusack Character, adding a third dimension of moral ambiguity. “Make a character human, and they’re endlessly fascinating,” says Cusack. “You go out and see a bar fight, and [the fighter] looks like he’s Tarzan or from a Schwarzenegger movie, but a second later...
Second, some say that what feels natural is also moral. Saving an unseen African child just doesn’t feel as necessary as rescuing a child dying in front of one’s own eyes. This is probably the main reason why Americans don’t give more to charity. But no one believes that an act is moral just because it is instinctive. If you think it is, would I be morally justified in punching you in the face just because I felt an urgent need to do so and was genetically predisposed to rage...
...responsible for those foreign children since so many others could be saving them too.” But would you have refused to save the child if a crowd of people were standing around doing nothing? I cannot imagine how others’ apathy would have suddenly made it moral for you to turn your back on the drowning child and ignore his pleas for help...
...fourth rebuttal is defensible. Taken to its logical end, the moral dilemma seems to suggest that we should privilege no one and that our families and fellow citizens are no more deserving of our money than the incredibly poor. But there are good reasons for why investing in our children, reciprocating care to aging parents, and building a safe, trusting, and mutually supportive society is of special importance...