1. Making Moral Decisions
Chapter Two

2. Homework (due Thurs., 10/23) DRW for pp. 48-56
(due Fri., 10/24) DRW for pp
(due Mon., 10/27) DRW for pp

3. Homework
(due Weds., 10/29) Complete Abandon Ship worksheet

4. Homework
(due Fri., 10/31) Continue to work on case in your Google doc (work from your gmail account):
Prosecution: v0M0C95wZd2kBjmCqaV9QlNh1YGU/edit?usp=sharing Defense: hBIYdBKJW_XBHf42RL65f3zw-1s/edit?usp=sharing
Jury (has access to both; no comments, only type in name in space provided.

5. Homework (due Thurs., 11/6) Study for TEST REVIEW:
R&R’s/Terms/key ideas
DRW
Holmes case (essay)
(Tues., 11/11) TEST: Ch. 2

6. Right Reason in Action Is it ok to get drunk if you’re not driving?
Is it ok to cheat on a test if everyone is doing so?
Is it ok to lie to a parent if you know he/she lies sometimes, too?
Is it ok to shoplift something that costs less than $5.00?

7. Right Reason in Action
Prudence: The moral virtue that inclines us to lead good, ethical, and moral lives of action; “right reason in action”, as St. Thomas Aquinas put it

8. Right Reason in Action
Discernment: A decision-making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action or choice.

9. Right Reason in Action S.T.O.P Search out the facts.
Think about alternatives and consequences
Others-consult them and consider how your actions will affect them
Pray to the Lord for guidance

10. Search Out the Facts Moral Object: What? Intention: Why?
Circumstances:
Who? Where? When? How?

11. Moral Object: What is the act?
The act = truly, intrinsically good
How to judge it? = Human Reason

12. Intention: Why are you doing it?
Various actions
Bail! Row!
Rationing food
Throwing someone overboard
One purpose
To save as many as possible

13. Intention: Guiding Rules
1. Keep the intention good
2. The end does not justify the means

14. Circumstances: Other factors?
Conditions that make an act more/less evil
Who?
Where?
When?
How?

15. Think!
Alternatives?
Consequences?

16. Others
Consider others
Consult others

17. Pray… Why?